Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-30
MORE VICTORIES.
Ponce and Its Port Surrender to Com.
mander Davis without the
Slightest Resistance.

Washington, July 30-A dispatch from
st. Thomas, Danish West Indies, JUS
received, says that the port of Ponce
island of Porto Rico, surrendered tt
Commander Davis of the auxiliary gun
boat Dixie on Wednesday, There wa:
no resistance, and the Americans were
welcomed with enthusiasm.
The dispatch adds that the town OF
Ponce capitulated on Thursday after
noon.
1t is announced that a large move
nent of troops to Porto Rico will be
made from Tampa immediate and or
ders have been issued directing that the
regiments be embarked. Artillery bat
teres D. G, K and M of the Fifth regi-
ment e of the Sixth and H of the Sew
enth the Fifth infantry and the Fifth
cavalry are included in the order. Gen.
eral Hudson'S brigade, consisting Of the
First Florida, Second Georgia and Fifth
Maryland volunteers, will also go to
Porto Rico at once
| The transports Yucatan, Allegheny,
Comal and San Marco left Santiago for
| Tampa yesterday, and the Seguranca,
Miami and Mattawan, now unloading
supplies at Santiago, have been ordered
| back. AS soon as these ships arrive
they will take on General Hudson's bri-
gade for Porto Rico. This brigade, with
| that of General Schwan. which has al
ready sailed for Porto Rico, will form
a part Of the division of General Snyder.
Colonel Hecker of the quartermaster's
department says that the five trans
ports returning from Santiago and Por-
to Rico would generally go to New
York.
Six regiments of volunteers, the First
and Second Alabama, the First and Sec
ond Louisiana and the First and Second
Texas, now at Miami, where typhoid
fever has prevailed, have been ordered
to Jacksonville. The First Ohio has ar
rived at Fernandina from Tampa
1t is stated that the change Of
base of operations for the Porto Rican
expedition has resulted in a complete
rearrangement of plans of the signal
service for that campaign. There will
be no cable connections made with our
army at Guanica, as would have been
the case had the original landing place
been taken. and the war balloons, in
stead of being expedited ahead, will be
held at Tampa pending further develop
ments.
The original plan as decided on by the
war authorities was for landing of the
expeditionary forces at Fajardo, on the
northeast corner of the island All ar
engagements We're made by the war de-
partment on the basis of making Fa-
jardo the embarkation point and nu-
merous important details attended to
which cannot be disclosed
All these have to be abandoned in
view of the landing effected at Guam |
lea, point diagonally across the island
and far away from any possible cable
communication. All efforts to estab-
fish a cable service have been aban- |
doned. as the nearest point at which a |
new spur could touch an existing cable |
is said to be Santo Domingo, 100 miles
or more away. Meantime the army.
now somewhere between Yauco and
Ponce. lacks the advantages had at San !
tiago of direct and immediate commu
nication with Washington and, save by
the beated dispatches, which must be
sent back to the nearest cable point.
will be without cable facilities.