The times., 1898-08-25
GARCIA TELLS HIS STORY
The Cuban Leaders Report
of Operations.
PROMPT TO OBEY ORDERS

Placed In the Hands of the JuntA
Why the Insurgent General Was
Forced to Allow Re-enforcements
to Enter Santiago-No IH-Win.
The Cuban Junta of New York has re-
Gently come into receipt of Gen. Calixto
Garcia's report of the American opera
tions in and around Santiago. The Cuban
leader defends his actions, anent which
there has been vast deal of discussion
during the past few weeks, and urges the
fact that he was willing at all times to
obey orders from the American command
ers.
The report is very voluminous. In part
it says:
"On the 9Th of June the steamer Glou-
cester brought communication from
Gen. Miles, commander-in-chief of the
American army, in which he informed
me Of the project TO attack by land and
sea the city of Santiago de Cuba, and
that 1t was necessary that the greater
part of the Cuban forces should advance
on that city to cooperate with him. I'm
sAiSNiciAtiS gave OIttFS Itldt the forces
that had been armed should move for
ward toward Santiago.
II marched to Ascerraderos. where I ar
rived on the 18th at 7:3O a. m. having
been summoned there to confer with the
admiral of the American navy, SAMPSON.
to decide ON the best plan of attacking
Santiago de Cuba. This conference took
place on board the flagship New York.
short time after 1 was advised that
Maj Gen. William R. Shafter, COM
mander of the Fifth Army Corps of the
United States army, had landed to confer
with me on the attack by land of San
tiago de Cuba
The Americans Landed
1.-The Americans landed their first regt
ment at Baiquiri and advanced on Fir
nieza and Siboney, with the Cuban forces
always in the vanguard, they being the
first TO occupy said village. In Sfboney the
landing of American troops was con-
tinued, while the Cuban forces under Col
Carlos Gonzalez. advancing on Santiago
sustained severe encounter with the
enemy in Los Guasimas, suffering some
losses, but intiicting greater on the Span
iards.
General of Division Estrada marched on
the 25th TO Aguacate to gather the forces
that were there 10 form a column of 500
10 1,e00 men and to march with them to-
ward Santiago in readiness TO fight any
/ forces that might be sent TO the help OF
/ said city. At dawn on the 26th the steam
/ ers Orizaba and Seneca were opposite
1 Siboney carrying the balance Of my
/ forces. AT Z o'clock a. m. the landing
! commenced at Siboney, ending at 10 D. m.
] -t,s s..1. v~gA
! earlier also camping around Siboney, as
! we'll as many thousand of the American
army.
Perfect Fratt rniiy.
Perfect fraternity reigued among the
! Cuban and American soldiers, who Wed
with each other in good feeling. On ac-
count of the scarcity of food in the ter
ritory in which we were from the first
the Americans supplied us with the nee
essary rations for the subsistence OF our
I forces On the 29th Gen. Shafter and my
| self had completed the plan OF attack, and
l received from him the order TO march
on the morrow with my forces toward
Santiago.
..At the commencement of the attack on
Santiago there were 900 men in the
| American army. There were 4,VO0 Cuoans
under my immediate orders around the
city AT $50 in the morning or the ISL
of July began to march toward Marian
aio and at o'clock l had already occu-
pied the positions allotted 20 me, in the
following order: To the left on San Juan
and fronting Santiago Mai. Gen. Jose Ma
ria Capote with his column OF 1,00J men;
next to him, in the center, General OF Dl-
vision Saturnino Lora and 500 men; to the
right OF former General Of Brigade Fran
cisco Sanchez HecheVerria, with his COL
umn OF 500 men, forming part OF Gen. Ce-
breco's command and Gen. Cebrecco
himself with 500 men of his division. On
the right flank, in the heights of Marian
aio were Gen Rabi and myself, with our
staffs and escorts, facing the village Of
Caney.
Cubans Co-operated
"At o'clock the American batteries
fired on the Notifications of the hill of
San Juan, the Spaniards answering with
their artillery, and shortly afterward fire
also commenced from the batteries
against Ell Caney, the garrison of the
place answering with heavy hre.
eel Caney was defended by 1,5oO men,
troops of the line. or regulars, under the
command of Brig. Gen. Vera del Rey, and
San Juan was defended by 1000 men, also
regulars. At p. m, after gallant as
sault the Americans took San Juan, ITS
garrison being either killed or made prls-
oners except a few who had escaped to
j Santiago de Cuba. AT 6, after repeated
assaults. in which the Cuban forces under
Major Duany took part, the Americans
occupied Ell Caney-
"Our losses this first day of July were
about 100. all our forces being under the
| enemy's fire.
/ Gen. Shafter ordered me to occupy
the right flank of his army on the ad-
, vance on Santiago, and made night
march, camping at 10 o'clock the same
night at the country house Ducureau. ar
l tering ordering some forces almost on tc
Santiago. r.
ION the morning of the Sd there wa
4 firing with the city. At 10 o'clock tn
Spanish navy weighed anchor from tn
bay of Santiago, where 1t had been TO
some weeks, and within one. hour it wa
destroyed by the American men-of-war.
Failed to stop the Enemy
"At u o'clock I ordered force to fir
n on the village of San Vicente which tn
e Spanish abandoned, retreating toward
I Cristo and they also abandoned Dos Bo
: cas- on the railway line of San Luis. O
: the night of the Sd, and on the road of Z
Cobre, column of the enemy, 5,oC
strong, entered the city under Col. 1sca
rio, having left Manzanillo on the 22d c
June, and being harried by the Mama
,e milo division up to Barre. From Baire t
n Palma that column was attacked b
'e forces of Gen. Francisco Estrada, suffer
. ing heavy losses, the dead having bee
- left strewn by the road With that co
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