Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-06-22
FROM NEWPORT news
Four Thousand Troops TO
Sail Tomorrow.
MORE TO FOLLOW LATER
i"lr" virginia Regiment 60 Form Part OF
the First Expedition to be Taken
IT,. TO santimgo hy the Yale
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tBy Telegraph.)

| C3y Telegraph.)
| WASIllNt;TON. June alive
| months ago today war broke out be-
! tween the United States and Spain. ac-
cordins to the proclamation Of the
President and the declaration of Com
gress. The end OF that period finds
nearly 1G,0o0 United States troops lying
oil Santiago preparing to land; it dnd1ss
c;ibl" communication established bee
tween the government and the advance 1
guard of the expedition in Cuba, and
| il finds Cuban territory in the posaes-
| sion of the United States marines,
| backed by Il squadron and nearly all OF
| the commercial ports OF Cuba block
AIDED. This is all a part from Dewey's&
great victory at Manila, and from the
splendid results achieved in organizing
several armies now In the Campo,
| Therefore the officers of the adminis-
| tration feel that they have a right to
| look back With pride over what has
| been accomplished in the short space OF
| two months. working in a large part
with raw material in both the army ]!
and the navy.
| The government has now determined
to send heavy renforcements to Gem
eral Shafter at Santiago To this and
the first expedition will leave Newport
News Thursday morning. carrying
! Brgader General Dutfleld's separate
| brigade of the second army corps. mads
up Of the Ninth Massachusetts. the
Thirty-thlrd and Thirty-fourth Michl-&
| gam and the Third Virginia regiments, If
! in all about 1000 men, Expeditions will
| follow rapidly by way of Tampa, for
| while Fernandna and Miami are CON-
sidered to have many good points for
| concentrating troops. yet army officials \
| are now satisfied that Tampa can be
| retained with advantage as the main
| point of embarkntion. The next forces
| to go will include those of Brigadiera
| General Garretson of the Second Brt-
| Sade Of the first division. second army \
corps. embracing the Sixth Illinois, the
| Sixth Massachusetts and the Eighth s
| and Ninth Ohio regiments. Brigadier
General Guy V. Henry, "a distinguished
cavalry officer Of the regular army. arr
rived here today from Tampa, and the /
present plans are for General Henry to
| command division. made up of the
| brigades of General Duff1eld and Gem
| eral Gnrretson. this division compris-
| ing 5000 men to be for the speedy reln-
| forcement OF General Shafter. It will 4
| swell the American forces at Santiago
| de Cuba to about "a 600 men. But the
pcf, rs uncrr
| to send forward n sufficient force to-
crush any Spanish command which can
| be concentrated at that point. $g
The reports from Santiago that about
| II 900 Spanish troops are in and about
! the city do not agree with the reliable
| estimates in the possession OF the War
| Department.. ACCORDING 10 the lAIleE&
| figures there are not to exceed 1900 {
] Spanish troops at Santiago de Cuba
while 100 miles away to the northwest.
at Holauin, the Spanish corps com-z3
! mander General Pando, has 10000 men
| The War Department Is satisfied that
| the Cuban forces under Garcia can
| keep p;lndo from reinforcing Santiago
| Should this not be accomplished, the
! Spanish forces at Santiago would bG
augmented to about 25.OOO men. They
are we'll armed we'll disciplined. sea-
! soncd to the climate, knoW the fight
| ing grounds of that locality, and are
| probably us good all-round lighting
| force as the Spaniards can bring to-
! bear. There is no purpose on the part
| of the authorities to leave General
Shafter with an inadequate force to-
i, meet these seasoned Spanish soldiers.
Up to the close OF Office hours today
neither the War nor Navy Depart
mcnts had received any detailed ingor-5
nation us to the arrival OF troops at
Santiago. The entire information to-i
day WAS confined to the one brief dis
patch from Captain Allen, OF the signal
service. tn General Greedy, stating that
the troop transports had arrived. This
was enough, however to start baselesn
runors that the actual landing OF
troops was in progress and one reporE
went To the extent Of stating that the
troops were landing under q heavy fire.
| from the Spanish forces. Secretary
| .\lger ana General Miles disposed OF
these reports saying that no report OF
this character was at hand, and Sec
| Rotary Long made the same disclaimer
for the Navy Department. It may BIS
true, however. that the landing Is now
in progress. and, although it is not tn1-1
| possible officials consider it improbab be
| that any landing is going on under 81
Spanish fire. The landing itself may
talk, considerably longer than was an-
| tiripated and officials believe that az
least three days more Will be required
| before the troops are on shore ana In
| any sort of organized condition. Some
Of the army officers allow even more
time one of them holding that 1t VIII
take quite q month to get all the stores.
as we'll as the troops. off the transports.
The purpose. however. is to get of tha
; troops first. leaving the stores to bs
. taken off later. and the seiEe train lasE
| of all. Ads. .H.
The officials of the Navy Department.
were not deeply concerned over the re-
port from Hong Kong that the Chinese:
} authorities had ordered the Onite0
states dispatch boat Zafiro out of Chi
; nese waters without allowing her 10
take supplies to- Dewey. The reason
, for this unconcern was Il CONVICTION
that the cruiser Charleston and three
big transports have already reached
Manila carrying 4 large quantity OF
I lust such supplies as the American
? fleet there would most require. Then.
I ! roo. it was felt that the Zaflro had al
> | ready been treated with consideration
! and had probably obtained all the priv
ileges to which she was entitled IN
Chinese waters. 1t was said at tne
Navy Department that nothing han
} | been heard from the admiral ntmsel1
: since a dispatch received from Hong
t Kong day before yesterday. brought
: to that port by the Zaftro. AS the dis-
l patch boat left Dewey about Thursday