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Show ; -Oesertiou to tlxe Cubau .lv:ny ' An Aiii'jnseaae. New York, 31. Cubans here have information that shortly before the battle ot Iguara, a Spanish captain of regulars left that city, taking with him two companies of volunteers, mostly natives, and passed over to the Cuban army when the Cm ban troops were approaching the city. The whole regular Spauish force was ordered out to oppose their advance. An ambuscade ambus-cade was laid by the Cubans into which the whole Spanish column, which is staled to have numbered two thousand men, fell, and were either cut to pieces or found safety in flight. The Cuban army captured a quantity of arms in Santa Espirtu, and increased in-creased its own numbers by enlisting 500 well armed men. |