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All correspondents expect a sanguinary struggle for Santiago, and much

evidence points that way. There is other evidence, however, which suggests that General Linares does not intend to fight, but will blow up the squadron, and with his soldiers and sailors will abandon Santiago, and com- mence in the interior a guerilla war. That will be very worrying for the Americans, whose difficulty is to get across any large force of cavalry, though, at the same time, it will release the American fleet for an attack on Porto Rico.

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