The times., 1898-07-29
A LARGE MILITARY FORCE.
Four Detachments VIII Have


! Four Detachments VIII Have
Hcached Porto Rico by Monday
1t IS probable that not less than four
! thousand will have been landed in Porto
/ Rico by next Monday.
! The unofficial news which has been re-
ceived by the War Department during
/ the last twenty-four houis in regard to
I the lighting between Gen. Miless troops
| and the Spanish soldiers on the way
! from Guanica and Jauca have by no
means made the Government less eager
! to dispatch the whoe military force
rapidly as possible.
Gen. Brooke. with a large detachment
belonging to the First Corps, did not
! sail from Newport News Wednesday
afternoon, as the War Department in
! tended. but the transport vessels left
! port yesterday, and by this time are on
the nigh seas. bound for Guansca or
| Fajaido.
Gen. Brooke telegraphcd that the ar
tilleTy detachment. consisting of nineteen
officers and 6S7 enlisted men, would sail
on the Roumania and that Gen. Ha.nes.
! commanding the second brigade of the
! hrst division. First Army Corps. would
! leave very soon and would make a sepa-
rate report 10 the department.
MAJ. Gen. Coppinger, commanding the
troops encamped at Tampa, telegraphed
| 10 the War Department yesterday that
! two regiments of troops had sailed for
! Forto Rico and that SIX more regiments
! were ready TO so. The troops that sailed
| are supposed 10 have been the Eleventh
| and Eighteenth Infantry.
The Administration expects that the
| troops which embarked from Charleston
! last week belonging to Gen. Ernst's bri-
! gade OF the First Army Corps reached
! Porto Rico Wednesday or yesterday. at
/ the latest
The opinion is becoming general in the
War Department that Gen. Miles will
I have comparatively easy campaign in
Porto Rico HIS plan Of campaign in Por-
I 10 Rico was an elaborate one. but il may
/ be unnecessary to carry il out in detail
Even before he landed his forces in
/ Guanica the Spanish government, know
/ ing that peace overtures were but few
.tays distant had notified Gen. Macias
/ the governor general Of Porto Rico. TO Of
/ fer no determined resistance II a forti-
/ fed city such as Ponce is attacked the
/ resistance Will be slight
ne caDltu!alOn or Gen I0ral was de-
/ cided upon only after the Spaniards real
/ lied the difficulties or holding out, hut
/ the garrisons of the cities of Porto Rico
/ will not wait TO have that fact demon
! strated
! This makes it almost certain that the
/ campaign will be bloodless one So
far. Miles. it is believed. has met with
no resistance The garrison in the light
/ house at Guanica was not sufficient to
| offer any resistance, even had they been
! so disposed, and they at once capitu-
| lated.
1t is thought that the same will be true
| of the other garrisons which Gen Miles
| will encounter, if he marches 10 San
Juan, and that the commanders will en-
/ deavor TO make the terms of capitula-
! ton the same as those at Santiago-thai
/ the Spanish soldiers be sent home at the
/ expense of the United States Government.
/ II is learned that Gen. Macias has been
/ ordered by the Spanish government to
/ look closely into the cases of all Porto
/ Ricans held as political prisoners and
/ to give them their liberty as far as pos
/ sib!e and to deal leniently with those
! whom ne cannot set free.