The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
LANDING OF TROOPS.
War and Navy Departments Both
Notified of the Fact.
CONNEyDABLE EXPEDITION USED.
The Navy Makes a Demonstration at Ca
banas While Determination Proceeds al
Baiquiri-Ten Submarine Mines lse-
covered from Guantanamo Bay.

WASHINGTON, June 23.-Oficial { =
patches received last night by bo.L
Secretary Alger and Secretary Long
indicated that the landing of troops
near Santiago was progressing most
iavorably. The first landing was eff
fected at Baiquiri yesterday morning
and met with comparatively slight re-
sistance. This was stated in IL dis
patch received last evening by Secre-
tary Alger, which, though brief, was
full of new and meaning. 1t follows:
PLAYA E ESTE, June D.
Secretary Of Var, Wdshin Jton, d. C:
OFF BAIQUIRI, CUBA, June .2.-Landing at
Baiquiri this morning successful. Very little,
If any, resistance. SKATER.
Secretary Alger expressed himself as
delighted at the expedition with which
the landing of the troops was being eff
fected, and with the fact that no seri-
u obstacle was being offered by the
enemy. He construed the text of Gen.
Skaters message to mean that the
enemy had made merely a nominal and
ineffective resistance by firing from
the hills at long range.
Shortly after Secretary Alger re-
ceived his dispatch Secretary Long re-
ceived q extended cablegram
from Admiral Sampson. 1t, too, was
dated at PLAYA del Esta, at $3.50 last
evening. The text of the dispatch
translated from the navy department
cipher, is as follows:
Landing OF the army Is progressing fayorably
at BaiquirL. There is very little, il any, re-
s~istance. The New Orleans, Detroit, Castine.
Wa.ep and 5 !anee shellsd the vicinity before
the landing We mad a demonstration at Ca
banas to engage the attention OF the enemy.
Texas engaged the west battery for som
hours. She had one man killed. Ten subms-
rine mpes have been recovered from the cham
mel OF Guantanamo. Communication by tele-
graph has been established at Guantanamo.
. s&sissss~.Es~ SAMPSON.
In both army and navy circles the
contained in the dispatches
OF Gen. Shafter and Admiral Sampson
was received with intense satisfaction.
The landing of so large a body of
troops as Gen. Shafter at present has
under his command is a task of inn
mense proportions. A prominent off,
cial OF the war department said last
night that the complete debarkation Of
the troops, animals, field guns and sup
plies within a week after their arrival
off the Cuban coast would be a task
we'll accomplished. 1t is probable, in
the opinion of the officer referred to,
that only a partial landing of the
troops was effected yesterday and that
landing Will be continued from day
TO day until completed. 1t is not uu.
too. that the troops will be
landed at several places along the
,osst, of course, within a short distance
Of the headquarters which Gen. Shafter !
establish for himself.
Admiral Simpsons dispatch indi- !
Gated hat he was carrying out his i'll
thoroughly to clear a way
or the landing of troops. The demon
'tration which he made with the Texas
Cabanas, which is just east of
guantanamo, may easily have led the
Spaniards to suppose that a general
anding was to be attempted in that
immediate vicinity.
1t was evident from the text of
oNAHPSOh ulopdGCll IildL d
landing had already been
Effected near Guantanamo. as he noted
hat communication by telegraph had
been re-established at this point
md that the channel had been
of submarine mines. In
he opinion of naval Off
'ers the landing at Qua ntanamo
vas of marines rather than of land
orces. The cable station. through
which the American commanders will
with the department in
his city, has been established, as shown
" the dates of the dispatches received
evening at Playa del Este, a
mall town directly on the coast and
bout Is miles east of Santiago. The
hange was made from Camp McCalla
o Playa del Este, in order that the
tation might be nearer the scene of
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