HO 



v 



OUBJL 



Ml Minister f War. lien. 



UM middle of July 

 fnlnr.*Wcavlrv. 

 guard* 

 The nava 



of 16 vessels, to be augmented 

 ng to Spa.... and p.. that 



MHMW mJSto regular Infant nr, *.w 

 91 afUlkrr. 415 engineers, 4.400 civil 

 1700 marmW and 1 **. T 



foico iiiriitiil of IS voxels, to l.e M ii 



tmilding 



in 



wL! IX parrha^l m Knclsnd and <,. the 



^sasSs^r^ 



mvvJSttftXtt Ctl: 



las under Gomes, and S.OOO under K.-l.-ff and 

 ftonchs* in Sunu Clara. Of Maceo's army, 7,000 

 hod Remingtons* Winchesters* and Mansers, and 

 mart of the others carried revolvers or sh< 

 betides their SMOftelst. Malagas had 400 men in 



The 



in the 



of the Sini.-h forces were 

 of August. Oen. Jose* 

 " Gen. Salcedo ; Oen. 



Mu Hoc replaced Gen. 



Spanish Government decided to 

 send tOjOOO more troops. The losses by vdl..w 

 fever and other diseases and in battle had a! 

 nearly reached 80.000, Gen. Campos ordered the 

 Si*t)ih volunteer companies to transfer each 

 lOO men to the regular army; 1,800 were in- 

 duced to Join on the promise that they would 

 onlv be required to do garrison duty. 



The fund* for prosecuting the war were de- 

 rived from the sale of Cuban bonds of the series 

 of Wetl, of which the Spanish Government had 

 I tOjOOOjQOOpf sos at the beginning of the rebellion. 

 These ware disposed of at 40 per cent, of their 

 nominal value,*) per cent lower than they were 

 " before the outbreak. They thus realised 

 ad nearly half of which were ex- 

 the expenditures having 



On Aug. 81 a 



Sao del 

 betweaq 

 Spanish 



Cot Ganellas, who succeeded 

 snamo. The 



battle occurred 



de las J 

 ' 3 - M. and 



at GuanUnamo. The Spanish 

 rched out. intending to attack the 

 Itsbel camp at Gran Piedra. The insurgents had 

 laid dynamite mines under all the roads ap- 

 proarhiug their position, and 5 of these were ex- 

 pWed with deadly eftWt. The Spaniards as- 

 Mood one of the passes in the mo:. 

 gnmiinsiil gnerrflU chief Garrido, noted alike 

 for military ability and for barbarity, having 

 telat the beginning the other. The Spanish 

 i| l!S lll J lfl ? 111 ' br r ' l . r P the road, exposed to a 

 P^lwfwm the heights, and finally brought 

 Jeldfnn into action. Their penetrated to t h, 

 Mwi camp, which they destroyed, aft -r which 

 lhy rK,r*d in the night.aii MacWWl not onlv 

 the tmopi that fmghi them in the pass, but as 

 t fr**h troop* with which to attack 

 ta the morning. A detachment of Cuban 

 tmlrjr, making al* detour, charged 



iT-sirfcitf..^:^ , T ^t 



of ihr insurgents WHS :ifi kill-<l and 80 woumlcd. 

 Two days later a column of 1.500 ni.-n unl-r 

 Linares was attacked <-M the flank at Deil 



Mu. Tic l.y Hala \vliil.- . . .n\ , .yin^ 



stores ft- -in r.ilnm Soriano t> 

 atil lo-t 'J! kill.Ml and 0() wounli-i| :m| . 

 of t hi stores, d. k od a provision train 



and killed H2 men. but had to n-inv. tindin^ the 

 I | 



Th< inxurp'iits hail increased to < 

 bv th- tiini- tin- Spanish re-rufi>rrriiH-ntv :u 

 llM Soldiers Sent from Spain Wi-n- ii"t mi!: 

 youths, but tin- flo\\rr of tin- S|ianish 

 Some i if th- railroad trains transporting ' 



. -1 with ilynamilr. and bridp 

 \.-d. Outsidr Jif tin- citi<- and si 

 and tin- lines of railroad tin- tTrii"ry f the 



pr'\ i IK TS as well as the eastern pi 

 was occupied by thr n-b.-]>.: but M.: 

 separatee! their two fi-l.|- <>f o|>crat \<>\\. 1 laving 

 formal a junction with the forces in Las Villa* 

 and Santa Clara, Gonx / intended t 

 war into Matanzas, and the Spanish conn- 

 in chief, abandoning all serious efforts to 

 in the Oriente. or (ionic/ in Can 

 laid plan? to prevent this invasion and ; 

 guarus in the sugar plantations of .Mat.m/.as. 

 The attempt to protect the estates in 

 volted provinces nad been ineffectual. f..r the 

 insurgents had overpowered the guards ii 

 case, and destroyed the property as a punish- 

 ment to the owners for applying to the < 

 nient for protection. Only those planters 

 continue operations who paid the heavy 

 but ions assessed upon them for the sup] 

 the revolution. 



The strength of the Spanish forces afi.rthe 

 arrival of the .\uiru-t re-enforcements was re 

 1 to be 59,700 infantry of the litn 

 F cavalry. ii.'JOO artillery, 1,400 en^ 

 2,700 marine infantry. 1,100 mounted guerri 11 a,s, 

 4,400 civil guards. 1,000 police, and 8,600 volun- 

 teers. From the total of 80,000 should 

 ducted the losses, estimated to have beci 

 kflled in skirmishes and battles, 8,n< 

 to the enemy and ini^sini:. and 8,000 vi< 

 yellow fever and other diseases. One 

 the troops were needed to gnrri-mi the 

 coast town 1 -, and strategic outposts, lea\ 

 force available for active operations that 

 not greater than the revolutionists had 

 field. The Spanish authorities planned to 

 ade the coast effectually with two ; 

 vessels. Already the \n- .nl it 



cult to smuggle arms or men into the is 

 Enrique OoUaco. who planned a fresh expedi 

 from the I'nit. nd other men ben 



similar enteqiriscs were closely watched. A 

 perty of young Culmns who ](>;> 1 with 



munitions of war in Wilmington. I >!.. w< 

 rested, and the cargo was seized l>\ > 

 cers. They were trit-d and acquitted, the simple 

 exportation of arms in a merchant vessel being 

 no violation of the neutrality laws. Sailors 

 caught smuggling contraband into Cuba on the 

 steamer "Mascotte" were sentenced in tl 

 rine Court <a to seventeen years' penal 



servitude in (Vuta. 



Juan Gualherto Gomez and other memb 

 expeditions who were captured by the Spaniards 

 were tried after months of detention and sen- 



