The San Francisco call., 1898-12-21

Camara Cana would proceed through the suez canal for Manila.
 Q The Navy Department at Washington aun0unced that Commodore Watson would take under his command an arm Sreo squadron and proceed at once to the @ spanish coast. Ihe Eastern squadron, it was announced would consist of the fol- towing vessels Flagship Newark. battle snip Iowa, battleship Oregon, cruiser Yo- seInite! cruiser Yankee. cruiser Dixie, and gan City.
 JUNE 2S-General Rents division stole a march on the Spaniards and by flank HnIQNement almost reached the Santiago MOTTO. Siege and field guns were placed on the heights overlooking the city. ..PreSident Mckinley issued a proclama- ton olockading ports on the. southern coast of Cuba and San Juan. Porto Rico.
 Admiral Camara's drafts for canal dues were refused at Port Said, and ms fleet was unable to obtain coal.
 JUNE 29-Major General Wesley Merritt sailed from San Francisco to assume his duties as Military Governor of the Philip
 General Shafter announced that he was waiting for heavy artillery before attack ing Santiago, and that he could take the city within forty-eight hours.
 Four of Garcias starving insurgents died from the unaccustomed luxury of too much food.
 JUNE 3O-It was announced that the at- tack on Santiago would begin by move ments against Caney and San Juan, the former northeast and the latter southeast of the city.
 The cables brought the tidings that Ad- miral Camara had paid his tonnage dues and that his fleet would proceed through the Suez canal. Commodore Watson's or ders contemplated a pursuit and destruc- tion or Capara's s ships, even though the chase took him to Manila.
 JULY 1-The two most important en- agreements of the Cuban campaign fell upon this day both being successful, al though the American forces met with heavy losses. General Lawtops infantry gtormed the, hills of Caney, the Seventh. Twelfth and Seventeenth infantry Gen eral Chaffee's brigade) leading in the attack. In the taking of San Juan the unmounted cavalry, the First and Tenth regulars, and Roosevelt's Rough Riders bore the brunt of the fighting again dis tingutshfng themselves and adding fresh laurels to those already won at Las Qua slmas. Our losses in these two engage ments were % officers and POS men killed, and S1 officers and 1903 men wounded. These figures are from General Shafter' s own report.
 The plan of our forces in both engage ments was to drive the Spaniards back trench by trench. This feat was rendered all the more difficult because the Span iards were using smokeless powder That 1t was finally accomplished is a lasting tribute to the courage of the American soldier. both regular and volunteer At Fl Caney the Seventy-first New York Vol unteers, after overcoming what at first threatened to be a panic. fought like vet erans and left many of their men dead
 There was also some fighting at Agua- qores. on the coast just east of the MOrrO Eorti1cations were shelled by the New York, Suwanee and Gloucester
 It was announced that Commodore Wat sons fleet would not start in pursuit of Camara's squadron until Cervera's fleet lying, in Santiago harbor, had been en- gagged.
 JULY 2-The American forces had won complete victory. General Shafter was in command of the situation. and there seemed to be no obstacle in the way of a of Santiago.
 The. converted yachts Hist and Hornet. and the tug Wampatuck. in an audacious engagement with nine Spanish shins and the shore batteries at Manzanillo. sank a gunboat. The Hist later in the day sank another gunboat. The Hornet was dis abled.