Show TX aka Z SANTIA IN N 49 a nouns HOURS after i pity ays tue tit 1 VU I I 1 to short bat 1 boon o I I 1 ey june jun 30 gou shafter to general miles that bo be cla take i in tort fort night eight bonva ti t Ind indio leatis atLa that tho the ight involve loas bets lie la faly lly aware of the ilia approach of spain i noi cements and it I 1 Is believed bore t tit kt ike he intends to take the town ila ha mediately and that news of a battle night ight be expected at any time the iho opinion pr ovalla here that with lia day or two at most general shaf erwill have begun the attack upon lie ia city of santiago proper the important event of the day was waa the tha federal a rinno icem tit nt he h could alike hka tho the eita alt in 0 o forty eight hours but ll 11 losi doai laken in con ll 11 lection llon with tho the announcement con a ned in another dispatch that lie he Is icing coloff to attack without siv alting re it will bt bl seen that the officials hae ground for their expectation that the tha first Rc general ueral engage engbre zent of the iha war ar will begin in a very hort ti time ane N binti icalla the opposing armica are arc not diffrient the es ea of the tha spanish force being placemat pla placed cedat ai 14 men thoroughly en trenched and behind barbed wire fewes elites and block houses as a against about 18 men under shatter ft command by culumns on bans one of ithe gravest eleni elemen enta tB in lie he problem pr oLlena hovi however ever is the tha lo warships for micas dales shafter Is in assisted b by y 8 impson who mho might engage the tha f ull full attention of this spanish ships their fit file a upon the american advance would be very hard tu to inset thecil gitary auchoi I 1 ties liere here say that general linares hn bus lown town preat great military tact ln in slowly retiring during the th azat few days day as he has gradually gradual V drawn our troops from froin the protection of the american clr and I 1 rought them close t to 0 the th fire of the tha spanish ships in santiago harbor ro foi this reason it was with relief that the tha announcement ws received here that hatter had one ceedee in landing all of his bis artillery inird it g the siege mega trola for unless campa on can hi b relied upon to force hla his way into the li erbor and attack tho ships the siege guns planted in heights commanding the lay bay will bo be the main reliance of general bli after in off offsetting netting tho the presence of tho spanish ironclads iron aron undoubtedly adly shatter shafter la Is an to attack attach HS boon an possible by hia know leddo ledal e of the appici ah of the et monta fol foi MaW amillo for 1 nith his ii additional force Bli Sh after position would bo be disagree fible if tot not perl perilous at kat until lie ho had 1 reinforcements |