Show buob TO m FALL OF SANTIAGO endured ky the solders m the trenches men were not allowed to cheer when they heard of the capitulation of santiago scenes of starvation among the Refugees Why the americans have little respect for their cuban allies correspondence 0 associated press before santiago de cuba july 15 the american soldiers encamped on the hill aides that tall away from our entrench menta have been awaiting day after day asfor the result of the combined con inferences between spain and the united states to be made known they learned yesterday that santiago had capitulated this newa was cent alone the lines to right and left from gen wheelers headquarters by col frahn jacob and with it went instructions that our boys were to make no demonstrations of joy in order that the feelings of the spaniards in the trenches a few hundred yarda away would not be hurt by the re sounding of victorious cheers there was however some cheering among the crowded tents when our men learned that the object of three weeks fighting hunger and hardship bad been attained during the afternoon men clinked to the trenches to look again at the city they bad taken but were not allowed to enter and borne were glad for peace and others called for more fighting the strain ot the watching and waiting was removed and soldierly received itself into getting as comfortably fixed in the camp as the hnud would permit at yesterday aa the bands all along ithe line played national airs as is the camp custom and as a tired soldier boy hummed the words of the star spangled banner to the bands time bo chanted the victory he had not been permitted to cheer bithe hardships 0 this campaign let alone the fighting that scattered the graves of comrades eide by eide with the tents of living have been splendidly sustained by our men now that the heavy rains 0 the first of abia week have ceased conditions are better but rain clouds cover the city every day and any hour may eee knee deep alvera sweeping ewe through camp and it may be next to to start fires to cook food then food has been scarce the roads from here to siboney have been almost impassable during the rains and at all times have been rough and teaming baa been heavy when men put up with three pieces of hard tack and half a cup of coffee a day the question of nutriment is devious and when unseasoned eold lers go 72 hours without deep it can be truly bald they endure hardship but they have borne it al with fine courage and a good nature that was never long absent with the courage and determination of our men one notes the excellent physical condition of our mules and horses after three weeks of the heaviest kind of incessant labor all daylong the night pack trains and provision wagons toil up to the front and the iced cross ambulances bring back the sick and wounded poor cuban women footsore foo teore starving and weary drag themselves along the military roads from el caney in cearcy tor food and our men and ambulances bu pick them up and succor them at 1 baney the food id weak women and children get none and starvation is developing rapidly an old woman from kl caney staggered into camp this morning she was pale and pinched and the ragged silk idrees that halt covered her body spoke ot past luxury and refinement more than did her features and appearance she t did not ask for food but for work she washed clothes in the hospital tent for bait a day in return for food and eat down to ahe welcome army fare with hands bleeding from the labor at duk he returned wearily back toward el caney six miles away the richer by one meal the carapa have up to thia date heen pitched where bad conditions exist and their locations have never been good from alie point of and health now that the game is over our soldiers will be moved into location where sheea points are considered ered the conn try good ettes and when once ibe conditions are settled and the capitulation properly confirmed changes will be made an en settled feeling pervades the line and cen gather together personal belongings and are looking over old battlefield for mementoes of three days fight and ten days weary waiting A farmers boy from michigan will secure the born handled pocket knife of a dead peasant from the asturian aa as a souvenir to the american lad of the days he fought to tree cuba and if the michigan man ever crew and generous back in michigan over the idea of fighting to help the struggling lubiana gain the same liberty from spain that bis forefather won for him from england these same ideas have been pretty thoroughly knocked out ot him by actual contact with the cubans the cuban does not stand high in the the united states army expressed in different ways the opinion prevails that we will soon be back in cuba to thrash the cubans oar men have no praise for their ally as a fighter he is always more ready to eat american provia ioos than help american goldiere eol diere and instances of cuban greed inhumanity and cowardice are common talk among the army these sentiments of our men are known among the cubans and will undoubtedly result in a growing antagonism on the part of the men we are fighting for an antagonism which will result in their belne in the future less reliable and less worthy of trust by the united states than they are today |