The age-herald., 1898-05-15
F-c~~ INVASION $. CUBA IS NEAR AT HAND Col. Wagner Arrives at Tampa and Con. suits With Lieut.. Rowan. ARRANGEMENTS PERFECTED For a Junction Between the Forces of
 Garcia and Miles. LIEUT.. ROMANS CUBAN EXPERIENCE Landed on the Island April 29, and Proceeded to Garcia's Headquarters at Bayamo-Ac-
 sompanied on Ills Return by
 lnsurgent Officers.

Tampa, Fla, May 14--Col L. A. Warner. representing the army on the advisory board of the war department and a mem- Der of General Miles staff arrived in Tam ra today and reported to General Wade. Colonel Wagner said he expects General Miles will leave Washington for Tampa to- uay. He refused to talk the object of ms visit here. The presence of a member or tn advisory board in Tampa at this time, however has brought about feeling that the time for the invasion of Cuba by the United States forces is now very near. Added significance was given Colo mel Wagners sudden visit to Tampa by the arrival today of Lieutenant A. S. Rowan who accompanied Captain Dorst on the Leyden expedition from Key West to Cuba. Lieutenant Rowan brought with him des- patches from the insurgent leader, General Garcia, involving. it is believed a complete plan for the cooperation of that part of the Cuban army with the forces of the United States. Lieutenant Rowan was brought to Tampa from Port Tampa on a special trai and was immediately shown to Colonel Wagner's apartments in the Tampa Bay hotel. Lieutenant Rowan said he had no trouble in landing in Cuba.
 heauquarters at BayamO
 General Garcia's headquarters is at pres ent at Bayamo, one of the most important cities of Santiago de Cuba from which place Spanish troops were recently driven. Here large quantity of much needed sup plies were captured. With the exception of half a dozen of seaports the insurgents are now in complete possession of the east ern portion of the island. Lieutenant Rowan says the much dreaded rainy sea- son was commencing It is already raining in the mountains. Additional details of Lieutenant Rowans visit to Garcia were given by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hernandez, an aide to General Enrique Collage. both of whom accompanied the intrepid American officer from the inter- Tor of Cuba to the seacoast and who shared with hm the dangers of the four days journey in an open boat from the coast to Nassau, Jamaica.
 Lieutenant Rowan has seen much of the island of Cupa in a shorter time and endured more hardsihsp than any other American," said Colonel Hernandez From where Lieutenant Rowan landed on April 29 last near Port Portilo on the south coast of Santiago de Cuba to where he left on the north coast is across the widest part of the island.
 Guard of Four Men
 Nith q SudIu Ol unly lOur men ne push ed through part of the way on foot a q through one of the widest parts of the island.
 With hardly stop for rest he reached Bayamo on May l. where he met Gene. al Garcia. Five hours afterwards we start q for the north coast. When we finally reached the coast near Port Manati on May the only boat procurable was lit- tie dory hardly more than sixteen feet long and six of us embarked on this little cockleshell. We were picked up by a sponger and reached Nassau safely on May S."
 The body of Ensign Bagley, the officer of the torpedo boat Winslow, who was killed in the engagement at Cardenas, was brought up from Key West on the Mas cotte and shipped tonight to Raleigh, N. c.
 A party of four American college gradu- ates who have been with General Garc'a,s army as officers of artillery for about two years were also passengers on the Mas cotte. They are Major Arthur R. Joyce. Yale. 'S5; Captain Osmun Latrobe, Jr, Pennsylvania, '95: Lieutenant James Pennie, St. Johns College, Annapolis. 93 and Captain Stuart Janny, Johns Hopkins, f95