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Show EVACUATION OF' CUBA BEGINS Boys in Blue Will Begin to Leave the Island for Home on the First Day of the New Year. Cubans Are Pleaned to See Soldiers Go, as Movement Is Regarded as Step Toward Complete Establishment Estab-lishment of Independence. Havana. Now Year's day will witness wit-ness the beginning of the evacuation (if Cuba by tlio army of pacification, which linn been In possession of tho Islands since tho beginning of tho provisional government, October, 1P0(5. The first provisional regiment of mnrlncb, numbering about 900, which will be nmong the first troopB to leave, nto now concentrating from various posts. About half this regiment regi-ment will Hull from Havana January J, on tho cruiser Prnlrlc, which arrived ar-rived hero Christmas ove, bound for Newport News. The Pralrlo will return re-turn about tho middle or tho month and embark tho remainder. Tho embarkation will bo effected with as little ceremony as possible, nnd It Is probablo that their departure depar-ture will bo nttended with ns llttlo notice ns marked their landing. Cubnns nro greatly pleased by the departure of tho Amerlcnn forces, ns marking tho complete establishment tf Independence. All show tho kindest kind-est feeling townrd tho troops. |