| Show MILESS PLAN DETAILED I 1 he must secure control of 01 an entire island I 1 TO OCCUPY SEVERAL CITIES rast kost of abo his spanish Is troops in porto RICO oro ore gathered at san tuan juan and it is gen rials plan to land at least 23 33 miles ITile 9 flom that told kold navy kavy will destroy san ean juan fortifications thile hues Is taking in ronce hd abd Iila next most in importance new nem tork tor july 0 SO O A special to the Tribu tribune jio from washington says while lh h details of 0 gen Mf less plan of operations erat crat ions los in porto TOCO rico are not divulge it Is known that they are arc wholly un liet those necessitated necessitate I by I 1 the pee peculiar ullar conditions condl tlona at santiago instead of having bavins a single city as an jobje objective c G cn n lillta fles aas got to secure control of 0 an entire island and occupy a number of 0 cities establishing a system of thorough Ihori ugh and elective government in all it 11 districts the chief city of san juan can br bp only taken by the navy to lo operation cooperation co with a large force ashore as it Is practically tile ha on lla its lan landslide dAlde except by tedious siege elete with booty artillery th alii island la is in round numbers ion long and floity miles wide and evan cv n its leFt coast ports are seldom visited d by yellow fever blo boit it of 0 0 t spanish troops in fit porto rico are gaab td ed at san sail juan and it Is gen mil i 3 intention to land at least lease thir tv el erht ht miles from brorn that stronghold and occupy oter places the heavy double turreted monitors and other aher armored vessels of 0 I 1 the a so v vi destroy san juans juana fortifications and compel its surrender by bombard in if necessary if the navy part s completed as is speedily its as scheduled in th pro gramme approved by the war biard and other authorities here that I 1 city all ill III be ivady for or gen broekel Bro Dro okel acu alon almost by tho the time that ho he c in r tich rich tic h there C i i miless elless advance force consists of thrive thre or of volunteer infantry of gen Garr brigade the sixth illinois the sixth etts and it 11 ht batteries C and M 1 I of hie elie seventh artillery which started from T sipa opa several days aso ago are to meet him oil air mole st nicholas these batti teli 1 l i are among the first in th american army to be equipped excle siv y v with smokeless powder and were selected elected hy by the commanding genal e on this ae account count gen miles does not net expect to be do de dependent upon subsistence stores form crded from this country during his campaign as was the cuse case mith the army in santiago porto rico has not dot bt n devastated by the spaniards and it Is loth believed eved that american gold will buy all the food there that Is necessary sary for or the troops fresh meet meat will probably be found in n treat great abundance as it ll 11 in most states of tile the union and no difficulty Is pat p i d in living on the elie country the towns to lie ile captured outside of san juan are smal amal with two exception ponce arid and malaguez Maia guez the former i iche the most modem model n and thoroughly droga asive city in the west in dl i it has 2500 inhabitants and Is said inobe to be tile healthiest place in the island it also algo contains the only prot tant chuich in the he spanish antilles a d in addition ti its three first class hotels a cham chamber berof fit commerce a theater and a bank possesses a perfectly american lire fire department tile the residence of the military commander Is there and its population Is 1 almost altogether cn engaged aged in me r c antil pursuits its its harbor two miles distant admits vessels of twenty five re fe I 1 I 1 dr draught alight and its climate though warm Is never oppressive yellow fever has never bren boen known there lff iti the third city in importance facosi laces siona moral channel on the western side of porto RICO it has 2000 population the while and its it s exports are chiefly cortee coffee an and sugar suga its climate la is excellent the tur never exceeding go 30 degrees the city in connected by ralli railway visy from Agua dillo in the northwest of 0 the island and another railroad r runs ns to lar I ar I 1 half way toward accerbi which it on the north coast fifty ahtty miles west of t sim san juan with which it Is con I 1 belted by rail lilay a guez will 11 ably be tho the first to town wn occupied by rn en miles mile |
