Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-06-29
Gen. Shafter Says He Can Take the
City by Assault.
DESPERATE FIGHT EXPECTED AT r1ANILA.


(Copyrgh, Associated Press)
AT Front, on Rio Guiana, June 2S, p.
m, per Associated Press Dispatch Boat
Dauutless via Port Antonio jamaica
Preparations for general advance OF
the American troops on Santiago 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 brigades
OF Gen. Hawkins, Col. Pearson and Col.
Worth, Joined Gen. Lawton's division,
and, with the cavalry division OF Gen.
Wheeler and four batteries OF light artil-
lery, will now be strung out In the rear
Of Gen, LawtOn's division.
The front still rests on the second
crossing Of the Rio Guiana, on the road
70 Santiago de Cuba, In the rear OF the
Seyilla hills aud mile and a halt back.
The brigade Of Gen. Bates, the Thirty
second Michigan regiment and bat
TALON OF the Thirty fourth Michigan,
landed yesterday by the auxiliary cruiser
Yale, remain at Juragua or SibOney.
ihe delay in the general forward
movement Is due TO inability TO get sub
sistehce stores to the front rapidly
enough.
The advance, Il Is said, will not be
ordered until every man has three days
TatiOns in his knapsack. This. however,
IL impossible until the road is passable
for wagon trains. Pack trains can only
convey one days rati0ns In a day. Men
constructing bridge roads have them al
most completed and this afternoon the
first wagon train OF four six mule teams
will 90 through. In two or three days
more every man will have three days
TstiOns in his knapsack. Then the
army will move on the enemy.
Corporal Dewey and nine sharpshOoters
from the Seventh infantry went ont al
dark last night with one days ratiOns
towards the Spanish lines. They have
not yet returned, and IL Ia believed that
they are lying in the bush waiting for
night.
When the remaining battalions OF the
Thirty-fOurth Michigan and Eighth
Massachusetts,, which will arrive ON the
Harvard tomorrow, and the ak thou
sand reinfOrcements sent out from Tam
pa are here, Agadores, a town on the
coast, four miles west Of Juragua, will
be taken. The place was shelled to-day
by several ships. AguadOres will proba-
bly become u base OF operations.
Gen LawtOn will probably make a
diversion with his artillery as soon as II
is la position. The heavy rain this after.
noon made II impossible TO move beyond
Gen Wheeler's headquarters, but the
roads will dry quickly, and the guns will
probably be brought up tomorrow and
The entertainments be shelled by the ar
tl.lpry and by Col. Woods dynamite
guns The Cubans say that the Span
iards are In deadly fear OF dynamite.
Simultaneously with the bombardment,
Gen, Chalfee's brigade will occupy pO-
s. ion Of vital importance in advance OF
our front.
TIE military telegraph line has been
completed to General Wheeler's head
quarters, thus placing the front in direct
communication with General Shafter,
who still maintains headquarters on
board the Seguranca. where he can keep
In close touch with Rear Admiral Samp
s.n, 1t is probable, however, that he
will establish headquarters at Juragua
tomorrow or Thursday.
There are now more than 1900 men
az the front, Drinking water for the
troops il obtained from the Rio Guiana.
The epidemic OF measles, which started
on board of one or two Of the transports,
is spreading. About twenty new cases
have broken out to-day.