The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-07
AN ASSAULT BY LAND AND SEA
NOW LOOKED FOR
Insurgents Are Massing Their
Forces on Every Side of the
Doomed City-Gen. Castillo Will
Cooperate With Gen. Garcia and
the American Troops Under Gen.
Shafter-Other Surprises Said to
BE in StOre-MysteriOus Disap-
peurance of Transports Loaded
With Troops.
Washington Bureau st. Paul Globe. I
Corcoran Building.

Special to The st. Paul Globe.
WASHINGTON, June 6.-Santiago
city is practically surrounded. War de-
partment officials continue reticent as
to the sending of troops to Santiago
province, and claim that no official ad-
vices of the landing Of a large force
near Santiago city have been received
at the department during the day.
That unofficial Information to that eff
feet has been received they did not
deny, but the evident policy of both the
war and navy departments is to give
out no information that will prove val
liable to the enemy. Unoff1cially there
was ample corroboration of the report
ed landing of 5000 United States
troops, as indicated in dispatches re-
ceived during the day. The belief in
the news is strengthened by the fact
that neither war or navy officials will
say what has become of the soldiers
who were embarked on transports at
various Southern points, now ten days
since, and the further fact that there
has been no news of the movements Of
those transports since they took on the
troops. Soldiers have either been land
ed in Santiago province, or will be
soon, is the way it is summed up here.
Santiago is practically surrounded.
With the American fleet in front and
the insurgents and United States
troops on either side, the next event
should be the surrender Of the strong
hold.
OTHER SURPRISES PROBABLE.
The clever achievement of the gov
ernment in landing a large body Of
troops near Santiago before it was
generally known that soldiers had been
sent to that part of Cuba, was widely
commented upon in official circles and
in public places during the day and
evening. In fact little else was dis
cussed save the reported sinking Of the
Spanish torpedo boat destroyer, Ter
ror or Furror, by the battleship Mas
sachusetts. 1t was held that, if troops
could be embarked on transports, con-
veyed to Cuba and landed under the
protection of the guns of the Amer
lean fleet before 1t was known in
America, even at the capital, that the
movement was actually under way,
then other surprises might be looked
for. 1t is known that a large number
VI lAOOPS nave SIllUdIhGu OH CTduSDOrIS
at various points in the South, and it
is not known what has become of
them. There is, therefore, natural pre-
sumption here that thousands Of Amer
lean soldiers may now be nearer the
enemy's strongholds than has been sur
missed even by the shrewdest guessers
outside of official circles. Though
there was some doubt expressed as to
the accurateness of the reported land
ing Of 5000 troops near Santiago, the
majority Of those who commented upon
the good news were of the opinion that
the announcement is correct.
FOREIGNERS AMAZED.
There have been repeated ugly rum
mOrs to the effect that military and
naval representatives Of foreign powers
were sending to their governments ad-
verse reports on the army and navy of
the United States-especially the for
mer. AT the various foreign embassies
where there has been heard any com.
ment upon the conduct of the war. the
= expert representatives from abroad
hav, instead of unfavorably criticisine
the mobilization and equipment of the
volunteer army, expressed amazement
ct the celerity with which the work has
been done. They say that no countrv
In the world could have done in the
same period, under similar circum-
stances, what the United States has ac
complished with practically no standing
army, force of over 20O,O serviceable
soldiers has been put in the field ready
for active operations. The citizen-sol-
der of America proves a puzzle to the
average foreigner. He becomes a vet
eran so quickly that the volunteer can
not be distinguished from the regu-
lars.
There is much rejoicing in the capt.
tai over the success Of the daring feat