Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-06-27
WAR NOTES.

At last accounts the advance guard
of the q. S. army was ten miles from
Santiago. Delay in attacking the city
will be caused by the difficulty in NOV
ing siege guns and commissary sup
plies over the bad road leading from
Baiquiri to Santiago. Engineers have
been sent ahead to convert this high
way into military road. There is a
lack of pack mules. Gen. Shafter has
perfected plans for a juncture between
four thousand Cuban regulars under
Garcia and the American troops under
Gen. Wheeler. Troops of the United
States and Spain are almost face to face
and less than four miles apart.
1t is the belief OF Gen. Miles and
Gen. Corbin that the chief battle Of
Santiago will not be fought for two or
three days.
Col. Wood, of the Rough Riders, is
reported missing. Their is doubt as to
whether or not he was killed in Fri
days fight. Gen. "Joe" Wheeler,
commander OF the army's advance
guard, states in his official report that
twenty-five were killed in the engage
ment and between seventy and eighty
wounded. The bodies of nearl y all the
men who were killed were buried in a
long trench on the summit of the hill
where they fell. Chaplain Brown read
the Protestant Episcopal burial service.
Gen. Miles is expected to leave
Washington for the South at any time.
He will go direct to Santiago with an
additional force of men to REINFORCE
General Skaters army. He will, it is
stated, leave with the 1000 troops or
more that are to be embarked at Tam
pa this week. In addition to the men
that are to leave Tampa to join Gen
eral Shafter, more than 5000 of Gen.
Gapretson's brigade of troops will be
hurried to Santiago by way of Newport
News.
Naval officers say that Admiral Ger
vera is likely to attempt dash out Of
Santiago harbor with his ships in
the next few days. The watchfulness
on Admiral SIMPSONS ships has been
increased to the highest point. The
Spanish vessels represent money val
ne of about So, 100000.
Admiral Camara's Cadiz fleet has ar
rived at Port Said, the northern termi-
nus of the Suez Canal.
Four thousand of the troops which
compose the third expedition to the
Philippines marched through San Fran
cisco yesterday and boarded transports.
Another thousand will go on board to-
day and this afternoon the fleet is ex-
pected to start. General Merritt will
follow Wednesday in the Newport with
other troops, and is expected to over
take those departing to-day. With his
arrival at Mamma there will be $4,000
soldiers there under his command.
In an interview at Madrid yesterday
Prime Minister Sagasta said that the
time had not yet come for speaking of
peace.
A dispatch from Madrid says: The
Impartial, which has been one OF the
p.ost strongly militant of the Spanish
organs, now saws it would be better to
treat with the United States for peace
without any mediators. Other news
papers survey Europe, and, finding
Spain without friends, give way to de-
spair. They declare that Great Britain
is encouraging the United States.
France, after getting commercial adj
yantsges from Washington, remains In
different Germany keeps in the shade.
and Russia is using Spain as q tool OF
her diplomacy. Tho papers then COZ
clude that European intervention must
not be accented.