Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-06-30
LANDING OF TROOPS.
War and Navy Departments Both
Notified of the Fact.
CONMENDABLB EXPEDITION USED.
The Navy Makes q Demonstration aa Ca
banas While Debarkation Proceeds as
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Mines Re
covered from Guantanamo BaV.

WASHINGTON, Juno es.-Omcial dis
patches received last night by both
Secretary Alger and Secretary Long
indicated that the landing of troops
near Santiago was progressing most
favorably. The first landing was Eff
fected at Baiquiri yesterday morning.
and met with comparatively slight re-
sistanoe. This was stated In a dis
patch received last evening by Secre-
tary Alger, which, though brief, was
full OF news and meaning. 1t follows;
PLAYA DEL EarR Juno a
Secretary 4f WBr. WsAhinston, D. q.
OFF BArQUIRL, CUhA, June ~.2.-Landing as
BaiQuiri this morning successful Very httae.
II any. resistance SHAfTER-
Secretary Alger expressed himself Is
delighted at the expedition with which
the landing of the troops was being eff
feeted, and with the fact that no seri-
GUS obstacle vas being offered by the
enemy. He construed the text Of Gen.
Skaters message to mean that the
enemy had made merely a nominal and
Ineffective resistance by firing from
the hills at long range.
Shortly after Secretary Alger re
ceived his dispatch Secretary Long re-
ceived a more extended cablegram
from Admiral Sampson. It, too, was
dated at Playa del Esta, at $50 last
evening. The text of the dispatch
translated from the navy department
cipher, is as follows:
Landing OF the army is progressing favorably
ut Baiquiri. There Is very little, II any, re-
sistance- The New Orleans. Detroit, Castine,
Wasp and Suwanee shelled the vicinity before
the landing. We made q demonstration ~ Ca
banas to engage the attention of the enemy.
The Texas engaged the west battery for some
hours She had one.man killed. Ton subma-
rine mines have been recovered from the cham
mel OF Guantanamo Communication by teie-
graph has been established at Guantanamo.
SAMPSON.
In both army and navy circles the
information contained in the dispatches
of Gen. Shafter and Admiral Sampson
was received with intense satisfaction.
The landing of SO large q body Of
troops as Gen. Shafter at present has
under his command Is q task of i'm
mense proportions. A prominent off,
cial of the a department said last
night that the complete debarkation Of
the troops, animals, field guns and sup
plies within a week after their arrival
off the Cuban coast would be q task
well accomplished. 1t is probable, in
the opinion of the officer referred to,
that only a partial landing Of the
troops was effected yesterday and that
the landing will be continued from day
to day until completed. It is not IN
likely, too, that the troops will be
landed at several places along the
coast, of course. within a short distance
OF the headquarters which Gen. Shafter
will establish for himself.
Admiral SIMPSONS . dispatch indi-
Gated that he was carrying out his in
structions thoroughly to clear q way
for the landing of troops. The demon
stration which he made with the Texas
before Cabanas, which is just easteof
Guantanamo, may easily have led the
Spaniards to suppose that a general
landing was to be attempted in that
immediate vicinity.
1t was evident from the text of
Admiral Simpsons dispatch that a
considerable landing had already been
effected near Guantanamo, Is he noted
that communication by telegraph had
been re-established at this point
and that the channel had been
cleared of submarine mines. In
the opinion of naval off,
GERS the landing at Qua ntanamo
was of marines rather than of land
forces. The cable station, through
which the American commanders will
communicate with the department in
this city, has been established, as shown
by the dates of the dispatches received
last evening at Playa del Este, a
small town directly on the coast and
about Is miles east of Santiago. The
change was made from Camp McCalla
to Playa del Este, in order that the
station might be nearer the scene of