| Show IN IA MlCAlA 11IANMT send efllariategrr SC taleh ctttnclet tIc Morrlmo rrMllllo With the Fleet r Santiago de Cuba June jVIa Kingston Jamaica Juno 7IColci righted J898 by the Associated Associ-ated Ircss To appreciate the great danger of the Merrlmac expedition the character of the defenses of the harbor of bantlaeo de Cuba must be known The enhance to the broad and deep harbor on which the city faces Is by 1 narrow channel about u miles long and each side guatded by a hill standing almost perpendicularly to a height ot 1110 fret At one Iolnt < the neck of this appronch I les than SOO feet wide and only rY tnthom deep so that te en te hlp mut 10 II one at n lImo On 1 hi on lb eastern aIde oC the harbor Is I Morro Catle wih fine 21 ponndcr hive 18pounders and two modern rapidfire guns On the western hill ore two batteries with modern guns At the base of Macro Castle are several guns loaded with shrapnel to sweep the face of the water and opposite op-posite Is 1 similar battery Going around the first curve of tho nurroa000trcnre Cape Smih nn Island Is I found facing down Ihe hue bar with a battery of modern guns In lhe narrW neck oC the pnng ocr three basalt mines each row fifty feel opurt Ild the mIne 16 In n row neh I 30 fort nprt The Tlelna Mercedeslet In the shadow of Cayo Smith partly dismantled but having her four torpedo tor-pedo tubes loaded and facing down the channel About half way up the channel chan-nel on the eaten bank Is I the is trnl nil h verl maobaburo gn noel llama was tho menacing hole oC tleath Into which Lieut Hobson and hi men ventured with the Merrlmac |
