The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-29
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ON THE RIO GUIANA.
Soldiers Waiting for
Three Bays Food to
Advance Upon
Santiago.
OPENING UP WAGON ROADS
Pack Trains insufficient to
Keep the Fighting Force
Supplied.
MAPPING ALL The COUNTRY
Scouts Verify Every Trail and
Engineers Survey the
Land.
OLD GENERAL UP A TREE.
2 Wheeler Takes an Agile Meth
Cd of Mastering the
Topography.
HEARD TIE SEN7RIES TALK
Accommodating Parties Push Their
Way Right Up to the
Enemy's Lines.
HEARD TIE SENTRIES TALK
Accommodating Parties Push Their
Way Right Up to the
Enemy's Lines.
rBy Gable, Copyright. 1898. by The Associated

fBy Gable, Copyright, 1898. by The Associated
Press.l
AT THE FRONT, ON THE RIO
GUIANA. SECOND CROSSING, Tuesday.
June rs. 1898 "A P. NJ, per The Associated
Press Dispatch boat Dauntless, via Port
Antonio. Jamaica, Wednesday. June % G
A. ND and Kingston, Jamaica (9.3O A.
M)-The preparations for general ad-
vance of the American troops on San
tiago de Cuba are being pushed steadily
forward and troops of all branches OF
the service are being hurried to the front.
General Kents Division, consisting of
the Brigadom of General Hawkins, Col.
Pearson and Col. Worth, has Joined Cen
eral Lawtons Division, and, with the
Cavalry Division of General Wheeler and
four batteries of light artillery, will now
be strung out in the rear of General
Lawton's divisions
The front still rests on the Second
Crossing of the Rio Guiana River, on
the road to Santiago de Cuba. in the
rear of the crest of the Sevilla Hills and
a mile and half back.
The brigade of General Bates and the
Thirty-second Michigan Regiment and q
battalion of the Thirty-fourth Michigan
Regiment, which were landed yesterday
by the auxiliary cruiser Yale, remain at
Juragua or Sabouty.
The delay in the general forward move
ment is due to the inability to get sub-
sistence stores to the front rapidly
enough The advance, it is said, will not
be ordered until every man has three days
rations in his knapsaek. This, however,
is Impossible until the road is passable
for wagon trains. The pack trains can
only convey one days rations in a day.
The men constructing the bridge roads
have the work already completed and this
afternoon the first wagon train Of four
six-mule teams will go through. In two
or three days more every man will have
three days rations in his knapsack and
as soon as that occurs the army will move
upon the enemy.
The day has been utilized to good adj
vantage. Although the Cubans affect to
have thorough knowledge of the coun-
try and the trails nothing is taken for
granted and the commanding officers are
determined that the army snail not be-
come involved in hostile territory. The
whole country. front and flank. is being
thoroughly reconnoitered and an accurate
map has been made by the engineers.
Much Of the information thus obtained
will be of inestimable advantage from
strategy point of view.
Last night Colonel Mendoza, Of General
Lawton's staff, made reconnaissance up
to the very trenches of the enemy, their
sentries. talking on picket duty, being
plainly heard.
Corporal Dewey and nine sharp shooters
from the Seventh Infantry, went out at
40 RI last night with one days rations,