Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-15
! G0Yernment Does Not Propose to |B8e the Army Decimated by
 That Disease In Cuba.
|7IFIFY MAY CEASE UNTIL IN THE FALL.
Final Struggle to Defeat the Span | sh Will Begin at Noon Today. General Miles With Shafter
 at the Front.

Washington, July 14-Among the
 st informed administration officers } opinion is universal that the crisis of
 Santiago campaign is at hand. It
 deemed certain that today will wit A' Is either desperate fight or an nn- y 8ditiona1 surrender on the part of the " anish forces, with the chances of both
 genly divided that there is scarcely
 0s up between them.
 The war officials are hoping for a sur
 ader of the city and they generally ~sieY6 that General Toral the Spanish
 mmander, will yield at the last mo-
 oment rather than subject his men to
 hat inevitably will be losing fight. 1S lgTs is evidently hesitating as to what lirse he will pursue.
 .z Up to 80 o'clock this morning not q iusrd of information that would throw le3iy light upon the situation at Santiago
 ad been received by the war depart ent Both Secretary Alger and Adju- Tnt General Corbin expressed the opin- san that nothing tangible would be re- 7bsAed before this afternoon.
 M General Shafter's command is ill fine 7prits Strong reinforcements have jzsriyed and are at the front General s2'Shafter has now under him an available s-aghtjne force of 2t .S73 men.
 s8 IL is believed that unless there is q
 naterial improvement in the climatic sffonditions that the fall of Santiago and
 fhe surrender of the Spanish army will lselose the campaign against Cuba until sltAs rainy season shall have passed.
 Whether this will involve the return of ,xae army to the United States is not now
 slown, but the presumption is that -Eith the fall of Santiago the army will on transports and sent to Hlae United States where the troops will ||Irenain until October or even later before Sinking a geueral movement, on Porto Rico and Havana. In the meantime r0ur fleets will maintain strong block lade of all the important Cuban ports and thus render their occupation much easier than now.
 It's not thought that this plan has fesa fully decided upon and later events may make it inadvisabls to carry it out, l0lt 1t is known 10 have been under con liberation.
 The press reports of the burning of ;!aOoney by the medical officers of the united States army had depressing ef- Ileet here upon the friends of the soldiers N the front in Cuba For a long time N was impossible to learn anything from isny official source as to the exact state ' affairs at the headquarters of the fIh army corps, and this reticence on Mrt of the officials had the natural eff leet to increase the apprehension. Fin- SaF the fact was reluctantly admitted |aat It was not certain that yellow fever |9sted at Siboney. but tire report re- Ielved over night from the medical of afers did state that there were II sus- Aelous cases of fever.
 The fact that these cases were almost etlrely confined to members of the qaartermaster's department encouraged ae officials here to believe that the main ady of the army is not in danger from ne disease if it should turn out to be Rllow fever, It cannot be said that