The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-11
READY FOR BATTLE
COMBINED CUBAN ARMIES NOW IN
SANTA CLARA PROVINCE.
Forces of Gomez and MaceO Encamped
at Vajaca-Views OF Newly
Arrived Spanish Officer.

HAVANA, Dec. 10.-According to trust
worthy information just received here the
insurgents have been making rapid pros.
ress through the province OF Santa Clara
since the defeat of Colonel Eguera at
Iguera- The forces commanded by Gomez
Maceo, Roloff, Sanchez, Carrillio, Guerro
Diaz and other insurgent leaders have
united and are now encamped at Vajaca,
about fifteen miles from Placetas. an i'm
portant town on the road to Santa Clara
and a point of great strategic advantage
to the seaport of Caribaren. From the
fact that so many of the insurgent leaders
have concentrated their forces, it is be-
lieved that Gomez and Maceo have de-
termined to risk a pitched battle with
the Spanish troops. This concentration Of
the insurgent forces, however, is exactly
what General Campos is said to have been
preparing for, and with the coming Of
the reinforcements of troops from Spain,
1t now seems certain that he will be able
to strike decisive blow at the enemy.
The Barbastro ana Merida battalions.
which arrived here yesterday from Spain,
left Havana to-day for San Quintin and
the Castillo battalion departs tomorrow
for Santa Clara In addition to twenty
thousand troops which are expected here
ginning of January, the Spanish govern
ment is already completing the work of
dispatching forty thousand more troops to
Cuba.
Colonel Hernandez, dispatch from Sala-
manica states, has dispersed the insurgent
band commanded by Mirabal.
General Luis Pando. who arrived from
Spain yesterday in command of a division
of the reinforcements of troops, gave his
impressions of the situation to-day. He
said: AZ believe that the will soon
within six months 1 will return TO Spain.
confessing our impotence to repress the re-
o I'D n ean nythn 9rai by tha
Cuba, because the island would be the &C.
casion of heavy expense to the United
pendent power would also be troublesome
neighbor for the Yankees; but Cuba under
Spanish rule, after the opening of the
house and will derive great advantages
from being on good terms with the United
States"
The insurgents have burned a part Of
the sugar cane on the plantation of Con-
stancia, in the Cienfuegos district, and on
trict. and also eleven houses in the village
of Rodrigo. in the Sagia district Of Santa
Clara.
killed, as has also Gonzales, near Guines,
in MatanZas.
The insurgents nave ueTdleu train
near Jicotea, killing the engineer and fire.
man. They afterward put the conductor
to death.
General Campos last night received ca
BILE message from Madrid telling him that
he has the sympathy of the population of
that city in his efforts to suppress the in
surrection in Cuba and telling them of
their protests against immortality in the
city and county government of Madrid, add
ing that under the present circumstances
people of all classes should do their utmost
to elevate the minds of the people to the
support of those who are fighting for Spain.
The dispatch adds that the signers of the
message greet in the person of the Captain
General the glorious army of the father
land. The dispatch is signed by Ortiz, pres
ident of the Chamber of Commerce of Cuba
Yruqui, Duke of Tarlames; Salmeron,. Sa-
gasta Silvela, Alteneo and many others,
Including the editors of the leading, papers
of Madrid. The Captain General has ca
bled a reply saying that he sincerely thanks
Senior Ortiz and the other signers of the
message referred to, and assures them that
he appreciates the fact that they remember
him and says that he only regrets there
was cause for the demonstration of yester-
day in Madrid, particularly at this mo-
ment when union is desired and when the
only tribunal is the action of justice"