Show I HOURLY EXPECTED DAY OF NERVOUSNESS AND AX XIETY AT HAVANA Authorities Xo Longer Make the Slightest Concealment of the 5e xioui View They Take of the Situation HAVANA Jan 5Havana has spent a day of nervousness and anxiety and has been in hourly apprehension of an attack at-tack by the insurgent army or a part I of It Yesterday the bands commanded by Nunez and Bermudez were seen at Managua a village not more than twelve I miles from Havana I must not be supposed sup-posed that the city is open to the advance of the Insurgents or that there are none I within Its borders to offer resistence I There has been no overt ben OVet act of defiance of the authorities within the city and I there have been numerous voluntary of fers to bear arms in defense of the city thousands of them the authorities say But there has been a comfortable conviction con-viction in the minds of the residents of Havana from the beginning of the insurrection insur-rection that they were in no real danger of molestation from the insurgents Many hundreds of noncombatant inhabitants of the island have come to Havana tO await the passing of the storm Still more have sent their wives and families here as a safe refuge This class of the population a is in a state of consternation and dismay and spreads an infectious spirit of panic through all other circles The authorities no longer make the slightest concealment of the serious view they take of the situation and there are some who do not hesitate to rail at the Spanish generals and the troops and make bitter criticisms of them There has been great fear that the light and ad water supply of the city lgt cut off by the sudden raid of the insurgent forces The idea of the city being left in total darkness for the unseen working of plots and seditions Itself is enough to work a panic in the nervous condition of the public mind Special preparations for the defense of the works that supply these have been made and artillery has been placed to command them against all al probable sources of attack All possible recruits have been enlisted for the de fense of the city and the available ground about the city ha been filled with batter wit bter ies of artillery which are manned day and night The Spanish authorities have main tained a cordon of military forces run nine from Havana to the town of Bata bano on the south coast since the In vasion of Matanzas province by the Insurgents In-surgents beyond which they hoped to urevent the advance of the destroying columns of their enemies This cordon has proved no more effective than did the line of La Trocha which was laid to keep the insurgents out of Santa Clara province This line was broken yesterday by the forces under Gomez and the main body of the insurgents today passed Into the province of PInar I del Rio and are now overrunning that I province with fire and sword The par sage was effected near Batabano at Po zo Redondo and Gomez burned the vii Jage of Gabriel on the way and par tially destroyed the town of Guira ArL lena and of Alquizar The work of de struction in Havana province has been as complete as was that in Matanzas and the sugar lands of Pinar del Rio The work of destruction in Havana province has been as complete as that in latanzas and the sugar lands of Pinar del Rio are fat being put into the same desolate condition The proclamation of General Campos to the effect that aU horses on the island are to be held subject to requisition by the Spanish authorities has little effect beyond its force a a confession that the Spanish forces are badly handicapped by the lack of mounted troops and are mOlntec prac tically helpless against the cavalry force pra of the Insurgents I In effect the whole island outside the city of Havana Is now in the hands te I the insurgents They have not annihilated annihilat-ed the Spanish forces nor have they routed rout-ed the whole army in any single Ditcher battle Yet the situation Is completely in their hands and so completely have they outgeneraled the Spanish hve to all appearances Martinez de Campos army might a well be in Spain for any check It puts upon the movement of Gomezs army The tatters progress has been accompanied with continual accessions ac-cessions to his forces by volunteers and he has captured enough horses rifles and to the effective artillery to add immensely to te efetve strength of his men He has practically carried his base of operatons with hm and has usually countermarched over a wholly different route than that of his advance ad-vance aparently counting with confi the country dence upon living upon countr as he went There is Ute doubt really felt here that he will get as much or more sympathy in Pinar del Rio than he did in Santa Clara and Matanzas and the general fear here is now that after sweeping over Plnar del tRio he will come upon Havana from the West cooperate in attack with the force of the insurgents which have been east of Havana for several days past The advance of Gomez beyond Batabana has cut the telegraph and cable communication com-munication with the eastern part of the island upon which Campos principally princi-pally relied for directing his forces in Santiago Santa Clara de Cuba Puerto Principe and |