| Show IS ACTIVE STIRRING VP UP MATTERS AMONG THE MILITARY MILr TABY I 1 armor for far cars needed as the cubans cuban shoot through boller boiler iron kamor of a big bg battle navana havana feb II 11 the greatest activity was displayed la in military circles today at the captain generals headquarters the elie reports which lie sent tor for upon his arrival yesterday telling of the number of men available for or active aar service vice the number of sick nick the quantity of 0 ammunition and supplies in possession po of 0 each column or detachment the state mate of 0 the country roads roll rall roads and telegraph lines and the probable location and strength or of I 1 the he enemy were being collected and tabulated by a number of clerks the cap tain general intended to have t the he whole situation mapped out clearly before any movements of importance are undertaken orders were issued this morning from tho the headquarters to make inake a considerable sid erable increase of mored armored or railroad cars for or the use 0 of the troops there the 70 cars have been of great assistance to the spaniards in ini protecting conveyers of provisions lons through parts of the country infested infected with insurgent bands pilot engines also protected are sent ahead in order to guard against the explosion of dynamite along alone the road find and then comes the military train itself sometimes chero it lore are two eno of oc those these armored cars a attached t to one train one armored q ra n red car Is placed immediately af after E r the engino and the other brings up the rear doth both are filled with nith troops and are arc protected with ith boiler iron in most cases although this hig has been found to be insufficient protection in nearly all cases insurgent ing bullets passing through the cars A detachment of insurgents surprised a number of volunteers in a plantar planta lion near sn marcos do de province of pinar del rio the volunteers tee who are said paid to tc have numbered twenty t nty men defended themselves gallantly against superior numbers but the insurgents charged upon them with machetes and out cut down and killed nine of the spaniards Span lardi upon the arrival of reinforcements for the volunteers the insurgents retreated in their customary manner gen con maximo gomez the insurgent commander ln in calef camped last night at the elie plantation of bregha near san antonio to lc los las about twelve miles south of this city and a little north of ucal lie ho Is salil to have a large force oric ori c with him and to have been considerably reinforced re recently c antly from the province of matanzas talon big bie battle rumored Eu mored new york fcc 11 A rumor deac reached bed tills this city this mor morning ning from key west to the effect that IL a battle has han been fought in cuba between becwel the spaniards and the combined forces force x of maceo and gomez gomel and that the spaniards had been forced to retire from the field with severe revere losses losseff for r or some reason the spanish authorities it les have refused to allow the american pi ess CBS to send any news elc except ept I 1 that hat concer concerning 9 the arrival of gen |
