The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-07-22
cen. GARCIA INTERVIEWED.
Interesting Facts la Possession Of the is-
surgents Pando Cat On Dissstts-
faction IT, Bianeo's Army.

SANTIAGO DE CURA, July 10, via Port
Antonio. Jamaica. July ia CORE
,pondent who recently had an inter
REV with Garcia says: Garcia appears
% be man of - years. with AN inn
,ressive presence, large swarthy-
skinned, gray-haired, with daring milf
AIRY mnstache. pleasant smile and
graceful ways. lie touched his broad
Panama in acknowledgement of the
,alute AMI spoke in broken Engiish.
II WAS Hard Struggle
IL am little tired. said he. I'VE
nave had a hard struggle and his
worn jeans suit and muddy top boots.
with a single antiquated brass spur on
he right one. showed this
The enemy intrenched itself ia San
tiago in very good shape he con-
linued, because. naturally, the place
is one of the best in the world for that
purpose"
Could the troops outside OF the city.
Or at other points. have made a june
ton with them at any time?' was
askod.
Pando was Completely Cut on.
Decidedly not said Gen. Garcia.
"Pando was completely cut off. See
this" and he pointed To the tracing
cloth map before him with finger
trem billing with energy.
"Pando, wi no amounts TO nothing as
general anyway (this with a hoarsc
laugh of defiance). was at Manzanillo
with nearly 4 900 troops That IS the
point at which the river Cauto empties
into the sea. In its ravines toward
santiago we had
Men Who Held Them hack
But the elements did even more He
could not come over the hills during
the rainy season. which is now on n
the interior even worse than on the
seacoast. The coast was his only hope.
and there he would have had to brave
the fire Of your ships behind him he
had yellow fever in its worst shape.
Where else ia eastern Cuba are the
Spanish troops
Back at Hoiguin. On the >orih Coast
said the general. once more pointing
To the map. Between them and SAN
tiago is an almost impassa ble range Of
mountains. In the passes are ma
chetes and Cubans. and, thanks to the
United States. there are now rifles
and ammunition. Gen- Luque has
1000 troops at lIolguIn, but
they are being reduced in mum
her very rapidly The records show
that the deaths in the Spanish army in
Cuba have Teen close TO 10000 "A year
There will be double that number this
year. TO say nothing Of the loss causes
by the rival Of the American troop:
and the war. mean that from yellow
fever and the insurgent warfare theil
numbers have already been reduced
very greatly.
Death >tare- Them liza the Face
aud they know it, would not bs
surprised to see .ne-half of them lay
down their arms and join Us at thu
first opportunity The disafection Il
particularly strong among the hom'
guard. and but for the presence OF tia
imported soldery they would come on
of the cities and surrender now. Tn
United States navy has done wonder
full work
The correspondent also talked will
Garcias surgeon, Col Nalente, wins
also spoke English.
"There Is No Great Danger of Yellow Feve
Along the southern coast" he said
The fever district is along the Caut
river valley, where Pando and his 400
Spaniards are. The fever along tn
coast during the rainy season is a mer
malarial fever, easily prevented 10y tn
free use of quinine We have neve
found it very bad even in the interio
when we have plenty of that drug. w
know that
The Spanish are Entirely Ont of Drug
And they must be suffering terribly
Our spies in the cities have been uns
BILE TO secure any quinine for a numbe
Of weeks ut any price. and we kno'
that the army surgeons seized the sma
snnnlv i'm IA, drs.p stores at Santiago.