The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-23
REPORT FROM GARCIA.
Breaks Off at the Point Where 1t
Should Commence.

New York, Aug. 22.-General Calixto
Garcia has sent his first official state
ment concerning the Cuban war opera
! lions at Santiago to the Cuban jnnta
in this city. The messenger bearing
| General Garcia's statement arrived to-
day, and Horatio S. Rubens, counsel
for the junta, gave out the translation
of the statement as follows:
On the 9Th of June the steamer Glou-
ceSter brought communication from
General Miles, commander in chief of
the American army, in which he in
! formed me of the project to attack by
land and sea the city of Santiago de
Cuba. and that it was necessary that
the greater part of the Cuban forces
should advance on that city to CO.
operate with him. / Immediately gave
orders that the forces that had been
armed should move forward to Santi-
ago, very difficult operation, the in
fantry being almost worn out on ac-
count of the scarcity of food for 50
many people. Surmounting these diff
ficulties, the forces arrived at Palma
Soriano, and on the 18th l marched to
Asseraderos, where ] arrived on the
18th at 7:30 a. m, having been sum
moned there to confer with the admiral
of the American navy, Sampson, to de-
eide on the best plan of attacking San
tago de Cuba. This conference took
place on board the flagship New York.
/ must now declare that my object in
moving my forces on Santiago de Cuba
and meeting the admiral of the United
States has been to obey the orders L
received from the council of govern
ment, to obey and respect the orders
and instructions of the commanders of
the American army on their conmenc-
ing operations in the territory under
my command.
On the Goth, at 2:40 o'clock, the gen
eral of the brigade, commander of the
brigade of Ramon de Las Taguas. De-
metric Castillo, landed in AsSeraderoS
from Sagua, brought over by an Ameri-
can man-of-war to receive my orders. A
short tima after l was advised that
Major General w. r. Shafter, COM
mander of the Fifth army corps of the
CDited States army, had landed to con-
fer with me on the attack by land on
Santiago de Cuba.
After a long conference, and after the
American general accepted the plans
laid before him for the landing of his
troops and to carry out with success
the advance on Santiago, he returned
to the ship. The following day the gen.
eral of the division, Augustin Cabreco, |
toward the west of Cuba with |
the forces of his division, with the OBJ !
ject of preventing the enemy from re- !
uhOTclnS us SaTrlSOnS OF the coast I'D |
that part, and, at p. M, a force of |
$50 men, belonging to the division of |
Bayamo, and commanded by Brigadier
General Demetrio Castillo, was shipped |
On board an American transport to go
to the reinforcement of the brigade of i
to protect the landing of the /
American army and advance on San
-iagO by the east. These forces landed
n Sagua, and they advanced at once
IN Baiquiri with their commander, Col
mel Carlos Gonzales. and with 500 men
If the brigade of Ramon, under Briga-
lier General Castillo. The SDaniards
n great hurry abandoned BaiQuiri,
which Castillo occupied as the Ameri-
an navy began to lombard it, but fir
ng was suspended as soon as our flag
vas hoisted.