The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-12
Troops and Supplies Are Hurried to the Points Of
EmbarkatiOn
GENERAL MILES AND HIS STAFF
WILL LEAVE FOR THE FRONT TODAY
Havana Will Be Assaulted BY Sea- In Connection With the
Army Movement.

Washington, May 1.-THE army
movement on Cuba is now fairly
launched, and todays news developed a
concerted effort all along the line to be-
gin aggressive operations on a big
scale for the ejectment of the Spanish
troops and government from the Pearl
of the Antilles. An order given this af-
ternoon by the war department for the
purchase of 100000 rations is an ear
nest of the scale of which preparations
are making for invasion of Spain's ter
raitory Of this vast quantity one
fourth is to go to the Philippines by
way of San Francisco, and the balance
to Cuba.
For some reason that was not dis
coverable, there appeared to be tenn
porary check in the practical working
out of the plans of the war department
for this Cuban movement. After
everything had been made ready for
the departure last night, General Miles
was detained, and for a time today the
rather gloomy prospect of an indefinite
postponement of the first military eX-
petition was presented. Later on, how
ever, the obStacle-whateVe il was
was removed, and it was again an
nOunced that the commanding general
with a numerous staff, would leave
Washington tomorrow directly for
Tampa.
The department has made a great
many changes in the original pro-
gramme laid down for the concentra-
ton of troops, and, as indicated in
these dispatches yesterday. many
bodies of volunteers that were origin
ally slated for one of the great concen-
tration camps have found themselves
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rect to southern points. so that soon
volunteers from the east and middle
west will be moving swiftly to Florida
and the gulf. while from the far west
the cars will be carrying troops to San
Francisco.
Today's news, in connection with the
renewal of General Miles orders to
Tampa, is pretty substantial evidence
of very early movement of troops in
strong force to Cuba, while the Philip
pines force, of course, has been def
nitely fixed for some days.
MILES AND STAFF.
A final decision has been reached by
General Miles, commanding the army,
to leave Washington for Tampa tomOr-
row night. The special orders on this
subject have been issued, and provide
that the general and his staff and other
/! officers who accompany him shall pro-
coed to Tampa and other points that
may be designated for temporary
duty"
The following named officers will ac-
company the general: Captain Fran
els Michler, Captain NJ. P. Morse, Lieu
tenant Colonel j. c. Gilmore. Major
General Joseph c. Breckenridge and
Brigadier General Rodgers of the vol
unteer army; Colonel Charles r. Green
leaf. Lieutenant Colonel Wagner, chief
of the military information division of
the war department, Major Henry B.
Osgood, commissary; Major Eli L.
Higgins, Captain S. w. Seyburn Cap
tain Hugh L. Scott and First Lieuten-
ant Edward Anderson.
Colonel Wagner will have charge of
the bureau of military intelligence
while the army is in the field. He will
be assisted in his work by Lieutenant
Anderson and other officers in the
field will be detailed as the work of the
bureau increases.
General Miles will have his head
quarters in the field and great mass
of papers. charts and other data of a
military character have been packed
ready for shipment to Tampa.
ASSAULT UPON HAVANA.
The strategy board is carefully pre-
pairing its plans for an. assault upon
Havana by sea in connection with the
regular army movement by land, the
work being rather of preparatory ma
ture and not committing the depart
ment in any way to a final adoption
of this plan. 1t has been represented
that the fleet, with safety, might as
semble to the extreme east of the Span
ish Notifications at the entrance of the
harbor. In that position it would be
exposed to attack by only one battery
at the end of the line. The entire fleet
could enfilade this battery and destroy
it in short order. The attack would
be followed down the line of shore. one
battery at a time and thus reduce to
a minimum the exposure of the ships.
while bringing a terrible concentration
of fire upon the batteries in turn. One
naval officer who was consulted on the
} subject said that the fleet could knock
out all the Notifications, one after an
other, within two hours.
1T would look like knocking down a
row of bricks said he.