Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-06-15
$1,000 TROOPS
Viii Have Landed in Cuba
Before End of Week.
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Expedition Well Under Way in Spite
Of all Difficulties.
And We Will Now Expect News OF Capture
OF Santiago.

Washington, June 1f.-Without refer
ence to the exact hour at which the
United States army left Ticrd; for
Cuba il may be safely said that be
fore the end Of the week Cen. Shafter
will have landed with his $1,000 United
States troops On Cuban soil and that
the investment OF Santiago by land
will have begun. There was some CON
fusion in the official mind here as to
The time of the departure of the trans
ports, though assurance was given
that they had all started.
The fusion on this point is easily
account for by persons Who know
anything The difficulty Of moving
simultaneously numerous fleet com
posed of vessels OF all sizes and classes
No less than three times, beginning
Sunday was a definite hour selected for
the start and the war department So
notified, III each case some untold OBJ
- u ~ N'cito tiiN'uillN'it'l tlIttl "a
notification to the department that a
postponcment had been forced.
and that rarely does feet get off hy
FIRST intention. However. the depart
that they believed the very last OF the
transports had at last started for Cuba
in the start is not calculated 10 make
any material difference in the plans
from it viii be SIMPSONS marines, en-
camped near the tropical bay of Guam
tanamo ana obliged to maintain the
strictest vigilancei repclling the bush
Whac!ling Spanish irrcguars who
swarm in the Tickets.
This foe gives no trouble during the
daylight hours owing to the presence Of
the Marblehead within easy range, but
At night when the Warships are unable
10 distinguish heir own men from the
enemy, the lot Of the marines is IA
very exciting enc.
Having started the Santiago expedi-
lion the war department has nov com
centrated all its energies on the pre-
paratons of the forces to he sent to
Porto Rico. Active movements in that
inc have been made on q scale 50 eX-
tensiVc as to lead to the suppostion
IN some quarters that the attack is to
be directed upon Havana, but if this
IS 50 there is no open indication Of it.
The volunteers collected at Chatta
nooga. A. GOO in number, are reaching a
Iegree of excellence under the manage
ment Of Gen. Brooke that would War
rant the government in ordering them
into active service, but |
there is still consider |
able lack Of equipment that will not |
permit Of this.
Cen. Merritt has brought the second |
nstallment of his force into readiness
md viii sail for Manila, tomorrow 1t
s believed that the advance guard, the |
-hree transports which followed the
Charleston to Honolulu, met the cruiser
there and sailed in her company for
he Philippines about the 18th of this
month In that case it is reasonable
o expect them 10 arrive at Manila
within a week.
The only bulletin posted at the navy |
department., today. from Sampson cor
aimed the satisfactory news that an
American naval officer, Lieut.. Victor
Blue, of South Carolina, 1t the risk of
lis life. had succeeded in encircling the
gay of Santiago, and counting the
Spanish vessels therein with the result
If establishing the fact that all OF Ger
,era's feet were bottled up.
An unexpected complication has
arisen as to the right of Admiral
SAMPSON at Santiago and Admiral
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