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Show To Link Cub'ju Camp by Wlre Preparations nro b'dng made by the signal crops to erect several hundred miles of telegraph lltto lu Cuba for tho use of the army of occupation. At pro-ient telegraph facilities In the Pearl of Iho Antilles are meager, and regiments regi-ments which might be removed 'from iho different headquarters wou'd have dltllciilty In communicating with their enniiniinili'rs. Two companies of the signal corps have already been Kent with the corps which will be loc ited at Noiivltas, these being fully equipped with mnterliil to construct 100 mlb-s or 'telegraph lino. The satno number of signal men will bo sent with each corps mid they will construct whatever linns may bo found necessary for the convenience con-venience of tho armv. Puerto Principe, which will bo occuplud by American troops In a short tune, I Incited sixty miles from the coast, and Is not In telegraphic tel-egraphic communication with the outside out-side world. Tho signal men will Immediately Im-mediately begin tho construction of a Hue to ono oT tho const cities, no as to obvlnle tho necessity of sending a iocs-senger iocs-senger when the ndl:or In command lliero desires to communicitn tvlth his superior. Material for tho const ruction ruc-tion of 500 miles of telegraph line has beon sunt to Savannah, which point will oo mado n base of supply for tho signal corps. |