The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-24
sPAINARDS TELL OF VICTORIES.
Official Reports of Engagements With
Insurgent Troops.
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official summary of news from the eastern
part of the island, General Pando ad
vanced on the twentieth toward Sar
Juan, province Of Puerto Principe. and
was constantly and energetically engaged
with the insurgents. General Pando,
after a strong resistance captured the in
surgent camps Chomanda and Cuanoles;
and the insurgents lost eight killed, four
taken prisoners, large qunsity of stores
and ammunition and also their military
hospital The Spanish troops found well
stocked farms in the district with plenty
of horses and cattle. Many of the former
were used to mount guerillas. On the 2lst
the Spanish troops reached Vertinetes,
where they rested and provisioned. State
ments made by the insurgent prisoners
show, according to the Spanish reports,
that the insurgents had planned to make
q formidable movement to the west, but
this has been prevented by the Spanish
troops under General Castellanos from
Puerto Principe and Col. Cruz Gonszales
from Santa Cruz del Sur.
General Rernal continues operating
towards Baracoa de Sierra; and Col
Tejeda is marching toward General
Calixto Garcia, whose whereabouts is not
defined in the official dispatches.
General Ruiz will soon relieve Giroud
in command of his brigade, SO as to oper-
ate toward Arroyo Blanco. Later,
probably he will conduct operations along
The Moron Jucaro trocha
1t is belived that the campaign should
be principally on the western side of the
trocha where the Spanish forces are to be
reinforced, beca use General Maxine
Gomez has been calling earnestly for
more ammunition and troops from the
eastern districts. According to the state
rnents of captured and surrendered insur
gents considerable force OF insurgents
has already passed the trocha and it is
reported that a scouting party of thirty
Insurgents, carrying orders is moving
eastward. General Panda after due con-
siderati1n, expresses himself hopeful of
being able largely to pacify the eastern
provinces in about four months. He ex-
poets to enlist many negroes as guerillas
to oyerrun the province of Puerto Principe
and reports that the health Of the Spanish
is excellent.
All the foregoing reports as to Spanish
military movements comes from Spanish
official sources.
PRESIDENT ACTING WISELY.
Washington, March 23 THE Senate
committee on foreign relations did not
transact any business at its meeting TO-
day, but informally discussed the Cuban
situation.
The concensus of opinion of the COM
mittee was that the President Is pursu-
ing a wise and conservative course.
A member OF the committee said that
the course of the President was surely
convincing the governments and intelli-
gent people of the world that the Unit
ed States was justified in its moral sup.
port of every nation when the crisis
came. 1t seemed to him that the inevi-
table tendency was toward a rupture
with Spain and that the position OF the
United States was becoming stronger
every. day.
The committee is aware that the Maine
disaster will be treated as separate in
cident by the President.
1t was definitely determined today that
the CHILEAN battleship O'Higgins could
not be secured.
Commander Brownson is in Paris after
having inspected the Brazilian ships now
building at La Seine.
While these might be secured they are
q long way from completion and could
be Of little present service.
SAYS BLANCO IS RIGHT.
Madrid, March 23.-Senor Sagasta. the
premier, is quoted in an interview as say
ing: 1.-THE government entirely approves
of Captain General Blanoo's conduct in
denying that the Names magazines were
blown up with dynamite, as the Ameri-
cans have alleged.
MARK PARTY AT MIAMI.
Miami, Fla. March 23.-Lieut. Com
Inander Mark of the Maine Court of In
ouiry. with the following party arrived
here. this morning from Key West Lieut..
John Hood, Lieut.. 9. W. Jungep, Passed
Assistant Engineer T. A. Bower, Cadets
Amos Bronson and I. F. Boyd, Assistant
Engineer J. r. Morris and Carpenter Ct.
NJ. Helm.
A few minutes later they left by the
East Coast railroad for Washington.
Lieut. Commander Mark was very reti-
cent, but when the Associate Press CORE
spondent said: SIT looks like war;" he
replied. ''It surely does"
Others of the party in answer to the
same question were more emphatic in
their replies, one stating, 81 cannot see
how it can be averted."
CHILL WON'T SELL.
London, March 24.-The correspondent
of the Times at Santiago de Chill. says
the CHILEAN government absolutely re-
fuses to entertain the notion of the sale
of any war vessels to either Spain or the