THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 400 transports appeared. But even then there was blundering that cost many lives. The ships were badly fitted,illprovided for the conveyance of sick men. The victors of Santiago returned to the camps arranged for them at Montuak immediately afterthesurrender,andhadmarched his army away into the interior of the Santiago province. He was carrying on a desultory warfare against General Pando and the Spanish troops in the neighbourhoodof Holguin, and GENERAL WHEELER.

Point and elsewhere on the Atlantic seaboard after having lost more heavily by official mismanagement than by the enemy's fire. Even a worsescandalwas the state of some of the camps ofinstruction. Typhoid fever had broken out in them, and regiments that had never been moved out of their own country had a long list of dead.

General Garcia, indignant at the exclusion of himself and his troops from the occupation of Santiago, had left the American headquarters uttering vague threats of a general uprising against the American "liberators" of Cuba, in case the independence of the island was not granted as soon as the war was over The blockade of Western Cuba had become much more effective since the destruction of Cervera's squadron,and the fall ol Santiagohad released so many of the American ships from the work of blockading the ports of the eastern end of the island. The supplies that used to be landed at Batabano and brought in by railway