The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-06-02
THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
Outlined in Recommendations Of
ee, Secretary of War Alger.
LANDING OF TROOPS IN CUBA
VIII Be Hurried Forward, and Our Sol
dicrs VIII Also Be Sent to Porto Rico
at the Earliest Possible Moment.
Elaborate Preparations For Invasion


Elaborate Preparations For Invasion
Washington, June 2-For tfh first
time since the beginning of hostilities
there appears to be something in the
nature of an official statement of the
Plan of campaign of the United States
government. This Is contained in u
letter Of Secretary Alger to the speaker
of the house transmitting certain rec
concentrations and statements Of Cen
eral Ludlow, which disclosed the pur-
pose of the war department to send
1000 men to Cuba, 10000 t. start at
once and the remainder Just as soon
as they can be made ready for depart
ure. Then there was an estimate for
establishing electrical communications
in connection with the army "in Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines" show
ing for the first time officially an i'm
piled intention on the part OF the gov
ernmcnt to land troops in Porto Rico.
OF course all these movements have
been anticipated by the press, but
nevertheless strong element of doubt
existed and therefore the official state
ment of the governments purpose,
made even in this indirect fashion,
created profound sensation here.
A good deal of interest attached to
an order that was made at the war
department providing for the orgam-
cation Of the 1000 additional volun-
teers called for. The order officially es-
tab4ished the statement heretofore
made in these dispatches that a large
proportion of the new men are to be
used to fill UP the existing regiments
of volunteers, which are in most cases
deficient in numbers. According to the
plans already formulated 50 900 troops
will be required to recruit the reSi-
ments of the existing organizations up
to their maximum strength, leaving
only 23,C00 troops to be mustered in
for the organization of entirely new
regiments.
Several of the states and territories
have already furnished troops under
the first call in excess of their quotas
under these calls and Adjutant General
CoIbn is authority for the statement
that none of them will at this time b..
called upon to furnish any additional
troops. The District of Columbia and
the following named states are included
in the list: Delaware, Vermont, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho
and Wyoming.
An additional evidence that the ac-
tual forward movement of the army
and navy has begun was given in the
action of the foreign naval and mill
tary observers. They have been So
journing leisurely in Washington for
some time, but within the last week all
of them have started for Florida. The
British naval and military attache were
the first to leave and now they have
been followed by the German, Austrian
Russian, Swedish, Norwegian and Jap
anese observers. The government of
Norway and Sweden has no less than
six military and naval experts to OBJ
serve various branches of the warfare
An evidence of the elaborate prepar-
atoms that are making for the subsst-
enCe of the troops mObilized and to be
sent to Tampa is obtained from the
fact that the commissary's department
has now on hand at that place 100000
rations A ration is one days food sup
ply for soldier On this basis there
is subsistence at Tampa for an army of
10000 men for q hundred days, and for
a smaller army for a greater number of
days. The supply is being increased
daily, in view of the arrival of addl-
tional soldiers to be empted in the
army of occupation of Cuba and Porto
Rico.
1t IS understood that today the sec
retary of war will ask congress for an
additional appropriation of about $780,
100000 on account of the second call
for $4,000 volunteers. The amount so
far asked for or appropriated by con-
grcss on account of the war Is approx
imately $375. 100000.
A statement from Madrid, in what
seemed to be almost semi-ofIicial form,
of the acuteness of the financial strin-
gency there. and the plain intimation
that the Bank of Spain. and conse-
quently Spain, were nearing the end
of their financial resources, is regarded
at the state department as of more
real significance than many of the
stories of battles on land and sea that
have been coming over the cables for
the past few weeks. The effect of this
notice may be to hasten the operations
against Porto Rico. lest the prize slip
from our grasp through sudden and
unexpected termination of the war.