Show Maceo TalkM of the Fight I New York May 10A special to the I World from Songo Cuba says j A World correspondent interviewed General Mace who was found in his I camp in the forest a league from Tara I gueca and forty miles from Santiago I General Maceo gave out some details II of the fight at Hondo creek neat I Guantanamo in whloh his brother Joss I Maceo who Is not dead after all had t sharp encounter with 500 Spanish soldiers soldi-ers of Slmancos regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Bosch The Spaniards I Span-iards were attacked from ambush Jose I Mtceo had 700 followers The Spaniards admit a loss of sixteen killed and several officers wounded According to a letter just received by General Maceo by his brother the Spaniards suffered severely lie Cubans Used their machetes with deadly effect when the Spanish soldiers had fired away their ammunition Maceo placed his men In position In thickets along the bank of the Honde I which at that point is a stream about thirty feet wide Colonel Bosch approached ap-proached early In the morning alcug the bank of the creek and on receiving the fire of the rebels drew his men into position po-sition in A cane field The firing continued con-tinued until 1 oclock As usual the Spaniards wasted much ammunition needlessly need-lessly and when it vas exhausted Jos9 Maceo charged ass the river and cut many down with machetes One ol Maceos lieutenatns a French halfbreed named Alclde de Verger rode recklessly ItO the creek calling on his men to use heir machetes A shot from the Spaniards Span-iards killed the daring man The Spanish Span-ish regulars were aided b 200 volunteers from Guatemala Colonel Boschs mer withdrew when they had fired away their ammunition This Is a fatal fault of the Spaniards The officers appear to make i no effort to prevent the soldiers iron I I banging away as fast as they can When i i armed with C swift breechloading I magazine rifle like the Mauser it does I not take long to throw away the lOt rounds with which each man is provided Jose Maceo was left in his position and I he still held it when the steamer left this morning for Santiago I |