A SPLENDID STRUGGLE the battle of la quatsino was a biot hot one it receives its chief distinction from three important events it WM ime the first regular battle ever foteh on land between american and swish spanish troops it developed the fact that there to is no such thing as raw american sol diers they are all veterans ab initio inirio and with all their smartness they can occasionally be caught in a trap that the spaniards were smart enough to devise a scheme by which a force much more clever at invention and construction and nearly always wideawake could be taken at a disadvantage is not particularly discreditable to them and will be of immense benefit to our forces hereafter the latin descendant and the original native american will hardly ever keep pace intellectually with the anglo saxon but a certain smartness a blending of animal intuition with human judgment makes the former or either of them a source of more dread when not seen than when seen the details of that battle should be skillfully written rewritten re and given a prominent place in the records of this wax war As an illustration of valor not the valor that comes of example or by the force of association but of innate individual bravery the world has never witnessed anything superior and rarely rare i y anything equal to maintain perfect self possession presence of mind and coolness of action while men are going down like skittles every moment by an enemy in ambush to preserve good order and splendid discipline while the victims of a suddenly developed ambuscade bu scade and in the presence of destruction st and sufferings untold to fight on until the enemy emerged from his hiding place and then whip him till flight alone prevented his utter annihilation are achievements which reflect a new glory upon our arms an added holm to thet people whom they represent I 1 ehe fatalities were very severe and watt be still more so by reason of the serious ilous condition of many of the wounded the latter at the close of the battle figuring up fully three times as many as were killed the spaniards losses always difficult to estimate because of the allbut all ail but impenetrable places from which they fought and their practice of carking away all the dead they cancannon can cannot be definitely told but more than twice as many of their dead than the americans lost were found and it to Is reasonable to conclude 1 that the score was settled on the basis of about four for one the spanish will probably make one more stand in front of santiago and there unless something unforeseen takes place the great struggle for final supremacy in eastern cuba auba will tike take place in a few days seems to be focusing there with a ra exceeding exceed fag previous expectations without intervention it Is that oat the fight which takes place will be a gory cory and an awful one