The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-02


Philippines and Shafter at Santiago 1t
Will Remain for General Miles to Lead
the Expedition Against Havana-Second
| Brigade to March from Chickamauga
Park to the Sea.
Washington, July 1.-The Porto
| Rican expedition, which is the next
| number on the war programme after
the surrender of Santiago, is to be led
by Major General John r. Brooke, now
commanding the First army corps at
Chickamauga, who will be made mill
tary governor of the island after its
capture. Having provided for the for
warding of sufficient reinforcements to
General Shafter to insure his being abe
TO take Santiago when he gets ready
to move his full army against it, the
administration again is turning it's at
tention to the details of the invasion
or SPANS other valuable island posses
sions in the West Indies with a view
TO being prepared to fall upon it the
moment Linares and Cervera have cap
itulated. The plans have so far pro-
crossed that General Brooke has been
selected to command the army of in
vasfon and has been ordered to get his
corps, the First, composed of twenty
seven regiments Of volunteers, ready to
move to Tampa within a week or ten
days From there they will be sent to
Santiago preparatory to the movement
on San Juan, which will be made from
southeastern Cuba as a base.
First to Santiago.
The designation of General Brooke
for the Porto Rican enterprise is in
accordance with his own wishes While
General Brooke's corps, including 80, 900
men, is destined for Porto Rico, 1t will
be sent first to Santiago. AS revealed
In part from official sources of the high
est authenticity, the plan is to make
the Porto Rico campaign a continual
ton, so to speak, of the Santiago en-
terprise, instead of an Independent and
separate undertaking. The troops from
Chickamauga will be sent aboard trans
ports at Tampa and shipped to the base
of operations in the vicinity Of Santi- |
ago. There, under the supervision of |
General Miles, commanding the army,
and of Generals Brooke and Shafter, IL |
is proposed to organize the force for |
the attack on Porto Rico. If by the |
time General Brookes force arrives at |
Santiago General Shafter has not sue |
ceeded in taking the town, as many |
men as are needed will be landed to re-
inforce him. In case the undertaking |
promises to consume some time. the
entire expedition may be disambarked |
and Linares and Cervera crushed with |
overwhelming force Of numbers
Miles to Take Havana.
II, however, as is thought more likely.
General Shafter has practically, If not
actually, completed his task when Gen.
eral Brooke arrives, the plan Is to land
a portion only of the volunteers to help
form the army of occupation for the
province Of Santiago, take on board
the bulk of the regulars now in Gem
eral Skaters command, and proceed
to Porto Rico. When the American
army is in possession of Santiago, IL will
be made a sort of base for the move
ment on Porto Rico. Being but a little
out of the way of the direct route from
Florida to Porto Rico, 1t is admirably
suited, army authorities say, for half
way station between Tampa and San
Juan. With General Merritt in the
and General Brooke In Por-
to Rico, 1t will remain for the other
major general of the army.
General Miles, to lead the main expedi-
ton against Havana when the time
comes for the final movement to drive
the Spaniards out of Cuba. Unless Spain
surrenders sooner, IL is believed that
General Miles will be intrusted with
this notable service in Difference to his
place as commanding general of the