The herald., 1898-06-28
Troops Before the Trenches
ait Santiago
1t Will Be a Bloody Fight -Spaniards
Strongly lntrenched Officers
Are Puzzled
BIZ ASSOCIATED PRESS SPECIAL WIRE.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE GUIANA Sunday &c. Kingston Jamaica
June e. Monday mThe advance the American rests
the stream with the city Of Santiago four and half miles westward
in plain sight
night consisting two companies
infantry under Major Coolidge occupied positions right angles to the
road guarding the crossing mile half beyond Sana where
three regiments of General Lawn division camped the First Fourth
and Seventh The Eighth the Tenysecond Masahu
sett with the rough riders Tenth cavalry and portions several other
regiments behind them toward uragua About 500 Gu
bans under General Gonzales caed around General Lawton
headquarters but less than fifty did scout duty last night
General Wheeler today with the First Second and Tenth cavalry and
rough dynamite guns up
ouposts night and the Third artillery
and four Gang with special detail under Lieut. Parker brought
and planted the brow of hill overlooking the basin in which
Santiago lies
NOT SHOT FIRED.
Not shot from the American side last night though the front
Of the American line hundred from the enenchment
where the Spaniards combat the advance Santiago
Three shots heard during the night They seemed
from the distant Spanish batteries perhaps seaward Tho
top every hill and mountain north and Santiago occupied
bkhouse whence the Spanish the Ame
advances beyond Sanaa the Of the City
Gashng every high ground Spanish
The correspondent
right the American line today hryour Of these ntrench
completely fencing every approach the city The trenches
have been the the ground admitted The ends
Of the trenches overlap where the breaks in the line thus securing
comparatively safe retreat from rifle fire parts the trenches
are captured Upon these modern guns mounted
They can be plainly with the naked eye
STRONGLY ENrRENcHED.
Spies report that inside the parallel Of
rife pits shoulder Deep of them are marked ranges and sew
eral rows of barbed wire fences.
No officer who has surveyed the field which the advance
made undemates the task ahead the Americans although
still the most ontemptuous opinion their adversae
ARTILLERY NEEDED.
The general opinion that artillery
be safe attempt to assault the Spanish different
regiments must necessarily be deadly
force matter how brilliant in its courage by
structions.
Some the officers believe will necessary regular
Santiago and advance with line earthwors
be sheled by the light artillery These shp
mel $500 yards and the Spanas
sighted to 1900 yards and they kill at 210o yards
DO NOT REALIZE
However gratifying the national
enlisted the remains that they
lesson than the ambush Of the rough riders before they
deadly possibilities of modern warfare.
The road which the ordnance by
underbru and the road to the base of supplies
But little danger apprehended evident
General Lnares acting strictly defensive failure of the
Spanish troops Holgun Mnzaro and
ture with him have left the Spanish
be insanity his attempt aggressive OF
retreat.
NEED. OF SUPPLIES
The problem confronting the the transportation
plies for the roads the front still impossible
being improved In the meantime the being
first these left Juagu late last night others today
and completely out Of rations