| Show GOMEZ PREPARES FOR ACTION GIVES NOTICE THAT IM HE IS GO ING TO PUSH THE ENEMY has gas soldiers under him to worry weyler great spanish victory WM wast a crushing defeat cincinnati feb 19 A special to th the a Com commercial tribune fronk from hay havana ays according to couriers at hind band here gomez la Is preparing for active work the trocha was passed near la redonda without hindrance save a running fight for an hour or so wl with h small scattered bands of spanish guerrillas gen gomez has over WO good soldiers I 1 now and ho he has notified president cisneros that he intends to push the spanish generall general a little it it 13 known that gomez has placed a force hack back of IV eyler much to the batters lal lat tera discomfiture A bevere light occurred between some or of gomels bands and a detachment of 0 havana volunteers volun teira from we Wey alers lera sixteen miles east of santa kanta clara on oil sunday tile the insurgents de flating the spanish troops and capter i 1 ing one piece of artillery and forty men including tour four officers the light wass vas a fierce one the insurgents belne well In trenched in the swamps of montecarlo Monta Mont arla earlo chere the spanish had to enter almost in single lie file the insurgents waited until the troops had entered the trap and then they fired front rom all sides being byln so FO well concealed that the spanish could not reply bilth effect S scelar ang hla his men thus slaughtered the spanish officer gave eave the command to retreat but it became a rout and hundreds of them were 0 is shot hot dou rk the cuban following them 1 with v ith a ma machinton mac treto chinto eju claire aige 1 reports state that the cubans lost lo 10 t 20 00 and ibe hut but five the truth that it vas one of tile worst defeats sustained hy by tiny any column |
