The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-24
SAMPSON HAS CABLE
A DIRECT COMMUNICATION
WITH WASHINGTON.
The First Message Received over the
Rcstorcd Gable Was Prom Lieutenant
Colonel Allen Ia General Greedy An

WAsnINGroN. June 22.-Whcn Sccrc-
tary Algcr reached his office to-day he
was notified that the transports with
I $4,000 troops had arrived safely of
Santiago and that direct cable com
munication had been established he
tween the United States and Guantana-
mo, where the United States marines
o hold possession OF Cuban soil.
Thus not only is Captain General
Blanco cut off from any cominunica-
ton with the outside world, save
through the Key West cables with our
control. but the authorities in Wash
ington have been placed in close con
~ncction with our forces, army and navy,
which are conducting the invasion of
tuba.
10 General Greedy and his signal
corps belongs the honor of achieving
this last feat. He was entrusted some
weeks ago with the task of rc-cstab-
lisning cable and Geographic commun-
ication with Cuba. Under his super
vision Lieutenant Colonel James Allen
Of General Miles staff, with officers
aud mHn of the signal corps, have been
busily engaged in the execution os that
work. The French Cable company,
whose cable runs from Santiago to
Guantanamo bay and thence to Cape
Ilayticn, where "A direct connection Is
obtained with New York. was accorded
the privilege of restoring this com
munication with Guantanamo and San-
tiago, with permission To send com
mcrcial and domestic dispatches under
a strict military censorship ncccssi-
tated by war conditions.
The cable steamer Mancel was en-.
ploycd for the work and operating on
these lines communication was re-
stored between Cape llayticn and
Guantanamo about three o'clock yes.
tcrday afternoon. 1t is expected that
to-day or Tomorrow the cable will he
thrown open to the general public, sub.
jcct To censorship.
The first message over this restored
cable was one from Lieutenant Colonel
Allen TO General Greedy announcing
the reopening of communication.
General Greedy Immediately directed
the officer to obtain and forward the
earliest possible advices as to the ar.
rival OF the United States troop trans
ports. Lieutenant Colonel Allen ap.
piled to Captain McCalla, in command
OF the United States naval forces at
Guantanamo hay.
The captain in turn scnt out q boat
60 Admiral SIMPSONS squadron, which
returned with the news that the trans
ports had arrived safely and were
lying of Santiago and that at the mo.
ment of the report General Shafter,
commanding the military expedition,
was on board the flagship New York,
counscling with Admiral Sampson re.
spccting the landing of the troops.
The vessels that have arrived of
Santiago with the troops on board of
each. according to the data supplied to
the war department 10y General shat.
ter, numbered, with the escort. forty.
nine vessels, and is the most numerous
fleet that ever left the waters of the
United States for a foreign country.
Lis expected scre ihet the transports
will remain on Santiago, or perhaps
nearer the exact landing point of the
troops, until Santiago shall have been
captured. when they will tMic aboard
the greater part of the invading army
II il can he spared from that locality,
and convey the troops Ia Porto Rico,
40 effect the capture Of that island.