| Show FROM BOM t TEM FRONT i Itee t I 1 seems eros from the dispatches which had no not UP P to the latest la test hour been 00 that there has been an am bet between tween the landed forces of odthe the united states and some spanish guerillas guerrillas erillas near guantanamo some fifty gu miles east of Sant santiago lagO de cuba the lighting fighting according to the these accounts must have been of a very desultory nature as combats oa mbata with gu guerrillas guerillas guerll erillas laa we are likely to be and the ugliest phase of it appears to be that our forces did not win altogether wen even tf they failed t to gett get the worst of at it several men were killed and presumably a corresponding number wounded cm an the AmeT loan side white while no losses but only the evidences thereof 1 were discoverable on that of the spanish it seems however that the lafty abandoned their various ions leaving raving le r nothing loth 1 ne but bloody blood pools atod trails a and n a as s their I 1 dead W injured wei present wh when oft ode our forces took possession of course not even an estimate of the casualties can lae be made unless subsequent dispatches modify the accounts so far received very much it can be set down as having been a sharp and at times decidedly hot encounter without having been dec decisive Asive as to amy practical feature it is the kind of thing that must be looked f for or on cuban soil until the americans arrive in something like force f orce on the island when engagements of a different character may be counted on in line with this latter statement comes a dispatch directly from headquarters at washington announcing that general shatter and some men had embarked at early dawn this morning and were on their way to cuba this movement has not been made too soon as must be evident to anyone who keeps posted as to the way things axe are going undoubtedly troops I 1 in great numbers and with splendid equipment will be wanted there now that the ice Is broken all the men that have so go far been landed in ip cuba from the united states and aad all that can be landed within a few daab can be met at any given point by a spanish force outnumbering them at the ratio of at least four to one if the latter receives receives word of it in time anid and while the americans expect for a while to encounter odds and hold their own awn if nothing better it is still the part of wisdom not nat to tempt the fates too tar far this all brings to mind once more the suggestion previously made in these columns that the government la in moving with more caution than some people give it credit for its rule not to give out intended movements but only those which have been consummated Is a most wise wine and timely one as an otherwise the spanish could keep posted pasted as to what is going on against them without having to resort to much endeavor or run any great risks it Is more than probable therefore that the information which is permitted to percolate through the lines and reach them will do them more harm than good that about the time they effect a concentration of forc forces esat at any point with the expect expectation atlon of taking and holding it they will find themselves a day or so too late that the yankee pigs are there ahead of them and they must fight aggressively rather than defensively fen it if at all surely the government would not give to the world information so important as that a large army had just started for cuba tace ke landing place of which is already known and thereby enable the spanish to mass their forces in that particular locality no the chances are that as previously stated the present tense means the past and the troops are now so near the point of disembarkation that it matters not how much the enemy may know of it I 1 I 1 A dispatch just received states that it Is semi officially denied at at madrid that any americans have landed this ability to extract comfort from the most discouraging circumstances to is one that must be of immense value to the dons dona just now |
