The evening times., 1898-06-25
TO STRIKE A HARD BLOW
Re-enforcemen'S Being Hurried
to General Shafter.
MILES IS GOING TO SANTIAGO
That I'lace to he n Basc OF Opera
tions for the American Army.
There for Porto RIc0-The Fourth
Army Corps About to Depart.

Major Gen. Shafter is to be REINFORCED
by an army of 1900 men. Orders have
been sent from the War Department to
Gen. Shafter to return to Tampa as soon
as possible a sufficient number of trans
ports to carry force of this size. These
troops, with those to be sent from Hamp-
ton Roads, will make the American force
at Santiago 10000.
Although the War Department officials
are not expecting that Gen. Skaters
army will meet with any serious revers-
es, it is considered advisable to have the
American army at Santiago de Cuba
overwhelming in strength. The Presiden,
considers that much depends upon the
outcome of the Santiago fight; hence he
does not intend to have the United States
Army run any chance of defeat.
An additional reason for sending so
many troops to Santiago is that it will
be made the base OF operations when
the movement against Porto Rico is be-
gun by Major Gen. Miles.
1t will, of course, take some little time
for the transports at Santiago to be un-
loaded of their cargoes, and it will prob
ably be ten days before the additional
army at Tampa can be embarked and
sent to Cuba.
Gen. Shafter, in the meanwhile, will
proceed in his operations against the city
of Santiago de Cuba, and ii may be that
by the time the second army has reach
ed that city the campaign will have end
ed. Nothing will have been lost, howev-
er, as ii! is the intention of the Govern
ment ID utilize portion of the troops
for the seizure of other points on the
south coast of Cuba, and after the fall of
Santiago a large portion of Gen. Shaft
er's forces will be sent from there to Por-
to Rico.
Major General Miles is to go to Santa
go eventually and personally supervise
the decentralization of the Army and di-
rect the war that is to be waged in Porto
Rico.
The additional army mat is to be sent
to Santiago de Cuba consists of the
Fourth Army Corps, under the command
of Major General Coppinger. 1t will be
embarked at Tampa.
The troops that have been designated
to go in this force are the Eleventh and
Nineteenth Regular Infantry, the Fifth
United States Cavalry, six squadrons of
United States Cavalry, belonging TO dif-
ferent regiments. and six light batteries
and six heavy batteries of the United
States Regular Artillery.
The Volunteers are the Second and Six
ty-ninth New York Regiments. First Dis
trict of Columbia, Fifth Maryland. Third
Pennsylvania One Hundred and Fifty
seventh Indiana. First Ohio, Fifth Ohio.
First Illinois, First Florida, Thirty-ssc-
ond Michigan, Third Ohio, Second Geor-
gia and First Ohio Cavalry.
This force consists of about eighteen
-nFtrS Dt,H t1-a1l fn.I and prtir al.
diers.
When Santiago has been taken II will
be made the principal base of operations
against Porto Rico. II is the purpose of
the Government to re-embark Immediate
ly upon the surrender of that city, about
twenty thousand American soldiers and
send them to Porto Rico.
IL is the intention of the President 10
order Gen. Shafter, with an army of twen-
ty thousand American soldiers 10 remain
in Cuba after DE surrender of Santiago.
This force, together with the ten thou
sand insurgents under Gen. Garcia. will
wrest the entire province of Santiago de
Cuba from Spanish control, the two prin-
cipal points being Holguin and Man
zanillo.
simultaneously with the departure of
the American troops from Santiago de
Cuba to Porto Rico. an army of about
ten thousand men will be embarked a:
Fernandina and Miami. Fla Thus the
entire Porto Rcan armies under the
command of Major Gen. Miles and Major
Gen. Coppinger will be about thirty thou
sand men.
The Harvard will sail today from New
port News with the remainder of Briga-
dier General Duffield's brigade. The en-
tire force sent to Santiago de Cuba on
the Harvard and Yale consists of about
three thousand volunteers. Brgadier
General Garretson. commanding a bri-
gade at Camp Alger, has received orders
from the War Department to be ready to
move his troops to Newport News and to
go to Santiago de Cuba on the second trip
OF the auxiliary cruisers Harvard and
Yale Brigadier General Guy v. Henry
will command the division of troops con-
slsting of the brigades of Generals Duff
field and Garretson.
1t will not be necessary for the second
expedition that is to leave from Tampa
to carry a very large quantity of sup
plies. Gen. Shafter took with him sup
piles sufficient to last his army for six
months. In fact, ten of the vessels that
went with the first expedition were load
ed nearly entirely with supplies for the
army. The commissary department is de-
vising a system whereby fresh supplies
and provisions for the army at Santiago
will leave the United States every week