The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-06-24
CHRONICLE WAR NEWS.
Resume Of Important Naval and Other Operations
as Reported Each Day to Us by Wire.

as Reported EdC1 Day 10 US ny Wut.
The opened porents heavy fighting Cuba at points
INVASION that Skaters corps would land the
troops would bitterly oppose him The handful
be said to their glory kept the stars and stripes flying to
through eight and and peril
Guantanamo and until amply reinforced and the position made safe
that during these heroic operations bodies Of Cuban insurgents unit
ed with the Americans and rendered them valiant d The event
will be recalled the first land fighting the war and as having
been a serious reverse for the Spaniards
From Manila also of the arrival there Of the first relay
these landings Cuba and the mark the first nvasons
% e @ Nor 1 OoP soe hong in fact an
differed essentials from the armed encoachmen Tor
nvasion they being prosecuted simultaneously
nearly twelve thousand miles apart
Our Manila dispatches also brought ngs new and decisive
victories by the nsugen General Auindo the Spanish
troops 5000 of whom fell into his hands He also cap
tured five towns Aunado has established republic out the
ubdued portion and been made its President He has greatly les
send the work to be accomplished by the American forces who will
promptly subdue Manila OF cause Its surrender DeWe
whose authority respected all hands, pacd holds the key to
the situation being powerful enough to meet and any
position But likely outside the feeble show of resistance to
be expected when the Americans and Spanads meet battle
definitely the United States The diplomatic
a may S year made Or nds q oons at uansn
and probably at points Santiago This was done under
The spaniards opposed the landing
sharp continuous fire long and from points of conceament
the Shore but with what results not yet reported Generally
troops being landed incapable of their firearms with good
effect being thus at great disadvantage.
The next day menonabe for marked quiet IN war news quar-
but that always business at the front needed no dis
patches to tell that unless prevented rough and weather.
landings doubtless the face Of considerable resistance
being pushed by Shar under sharp bombardment the
Spanish positions by the ships of Sampson hardly thought
siege of Santiago intended but that quick and finishing blows
to be struck the enemy the land and naval forces have
been tacca posted for the fullest cooperation The return OF the
Spanish Admiral Camaa Cadiz after days confess
sion by Spain that she has nothing foa that possibly cope with
the superb washp guns and marines of the American But
she will without hercuean struggle concede that her
better than her when aou of Uncle Sans land
will unbelievable the student later generation
who shall read that Spn less than century earlier sovereign
continents and by of her tremendous maritime
compelled surrender her prestige and her navy
without accepting battle from her conquered 1t almost
thec have viewed the decline people
pumped dry national vitality by sordd mule and benghted
The stern ghenmen of this will force itself
the Spain with binding suddnnes but they have passed
the epoch for assimiang the son they will vanish from among
the great peoples of the earth still wrapped in the cobweb OF rad
tions that always bound them to the body of death
Wednesday infantry artillery and cavalry of
the American expedition under General Shae about 1906
with supplies of all kinds guns etc. safely landed on the
shipment for the rich that abound in the vicinity
During the landing SIMPSONS feet sheed the east and west
of Santiago entrance for twenty miles, thus not only protecting the
Immediate operation hand but perexng the Spanlard to
where the troops going debark The coast for the
whole however, found be pcketed by bodies
of the enemy and they poured steady fire into the landing Amer
but absolutely without damage 1t will take several days for
the troops nrenh themselves advantageous positions the
and capture Santiago which latter
reality be undertaken until strong reinforcement OF troops already
being assembled at Southern coast be dispatched to General
Shafter
landing Cuba closes the speculative
and sends the curtain its realities At
matter whence might anae and from the necessities OF
the everywhere the United States sharp restless
aimed straight the mark This will embrace the
capture possession every outlying colony Of Spain and of the
coastal cities Spain that required the American
make the overthrow of the Spnard complete and final We
shall during week. doubt be flooded with stirring details OF
battles and victories from all parts of the extraordinary field Of