Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-05-12

effective ngnting force OF General Go
mez and General Garcia.
The Cuban authorities are ready and
willing to have the fullest cooperation
by the United States troops on Cuban
soil, and it is said there is no ground
for reports that General Gomez desires
to act singlehanded in securing Cuban
independence. Naturally, it is said in
high Cuban quarters, General Gomez
feels some pride in having sustained a
war for the last three years single
handed against the organized forces of
Spain and doubtless believes that in
time he could achieve complete vic
tory. But, it is said, he is fully alive TO
the fact that this would take time and
large increase in the arms, ammunition,
rations and medicine at his disposal.
In the meantime he has only exercised
a prudential course in pointing out the
climatic dangers Of sending a large
United States force into Cuba.
Concerning the strength of the Gu
ban forces in the field the Cuban repre-
sentatives here say that the recent adj
vices fully bear out all that the Cuban
authorities have claimed namely, that
there are in all about 40.000A1en either
under arms or ready to take arms as
soon as guns and ammunition are at
hand. Of this number it is Sid that
about $4,000 lack arms and equipment,
leaving about %, 600 now in the field and
reasonably equipped although additional
ammunition and supplies wHpsd be most
advantageous to these latter. This 49,
900 does not exist III any one camp, or
series OF camps, in the usual sense Of or
gained military operations. On the
contrary, Cuban officials say their forces
have adopted the tactics essential to a
fight against heavy odds and have scat
tered their forces into small groups over
an area of 5000 square miles.
These small goups are best able to
carry ON a guerilla warfare which di-
verts Spanish attention to every part of
the island. The immediate command
of Gomez is said to number 5000 men
and is located in the rich Santa Clara
district. Some distance away, in the
province of Santiago de Cuba, are the
forces under General Garcia, the sew
eral bands of which are said to gaggre-
gate $4,000 men. The distance OF Gar
cha from Gomez is said to make
juncture between them impracticable,
as there are no means of speedy COM
munication
Ii Is expected Cnat Lieutenant Rowan,
the United States officer who made a
daring and successful landing in Cuba
and proceeded inland to General Gar
cia's camp, will arrive at Key West to-
day. This doubtless will afford the
authorities here much more data on the
situation of the insurgents. 1t is under
stood that Lieutenant Rowan already
has stated, whether by report otherwise
is known, that the Cubans in General
Garcia's district occupy number of
towns vacated by the Spanish and that
the Cuban administration of these
towns is in the hands of ''f1ne men,"
This last expression gives special salts
faction to Oubans here.
They are hopeful that President
Masso will remain in the western prov
inces and be ready to come with his
cabinet to the first large seaport city
that is occupied and there set up the
civil administration of the republic of
Cuba. 1t had been understood that he
intended to move his headquarters to
the eastern end of the island, where
military operations are not likely to oc-
cur, but this plan is likely to be changed
so as to keep him near the points of
probable occupotion in the west.