The San Francisco call., 1898-06-18
LANDING PLACE
 HARD TO FIND Difficulty Confronting the Transports. BLUFFS LINE THE SHORE REPORT THAT GUANTANAMO HAS BEEN SELECTED. Naval Officers Express the Opinion That All the Troops Will
 Not Be Disem-
 parked.
BLUFFS LINE THE SHORE
REPORT THAT GUANTANAMO
 HAS BEEN SELECTED.
Copyrighted. 1Ss8 by James Gordon Bennett

Copyrighted 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. KINGSTON, Jamaica, June IT.
 American naval officers now here say that they have explored the Cuban | coast for miles in both directions from Santiago, and that everywhere are pre-
 cipitous hills and bluffs facing the sea. | They say there is no place where troops could be propely landed within reach ing distance of the city except in the harbor. The opinion is expressed that only enough troops are needed to suS- tain the position of the marines now at Guantanamo and the rest may be sent back, leaving the navy to aid the insur- gents in taking Santiago.
 MOLE ST. NICHOLAS, Hayti, June 1.-The Yosemite has been ordered to leave Kingston, Jamaica, immediately. She goes to Guantanamo to prepare a landing for the army. Guantanamo has
 been decided to be the only available landing place.
 WASHINGTON, June 17.-No news is expected from the fleet at Santiago be- fore Sunday. That statement was made at the Navy Department to-day and was based upon accurate knoWl- edge of the course taken and the speed the vessels are travelling. The na val officials are still confident that the vessels have taken the easterly course by way of Cape Maysi. They should have rounded that point by this time. The fixing of Sunday as the day upon which news might be expected is supposed to have been brought about by the fact that it will take some time, probably as much as two days, to land the troops and their heavy equipments. Seeing that several days were required to effect the authorization of troops at Tampa, it is not to be expected that much better time can be made in get ting them ashore on hostile coast without any of the facilities afforded at Tampa for the work.
 The War Department has been work ing strenuously to establish cable com munication over the French cable be- tween Hayti and the point near San tiago where the marines are now camped. The Mancel was yesterday at Cape Haytien with everything pre- pared for the start, when trouble was found with her clearance papers. As soon as the fact was reported here Gen eral Greedy induced the State Depart ment to send instructions to United States Minister Powell at Port au Prince to use his good offices with the Haytien Government to facilitate the departure of the ship. It is believed that this has now been accomplished ana lIlS hdHc6l IS llOW SllIlSI III OudH- tanamo Bay or very close to that place. As soon as cable communication Is re- stored it will be operated by the French Cable Company itself, the only restric- ton imposed by the United States be- ing the establishment Of a censorship at Camp McCalla.
 For the same reason that they de- clined to make public any information respecting the sending of the Santiago expedition until the transports had started, the War Department officials decline to say whether they are about to send endorsements to General Shaf- ter immediately. But without reference to endorsements the department will establish a line of almost daily steamers with General Shafter to keep his troops supplied amply with food, munitions of war and whatever else may be needed. It may be necessary also for the Gov ernment to undertake by means of this express service to supply in large part with food and ammunition the Cuban insurgents already under Garcia and Rabi, who are reported to have come to the support of Lieutenant Colonel Huntington's marines at Camp Mc- Calla.
 If the Government should find it necessary to reinforce General ,Shafter with a few thousand additional soldiers they can be very conveniently and at short notice transported on some of these supply ships.