An Eventful Week

Washington, June 14. - Great events are scheduled for this week in the war programme. The army is finally to land on Cuban soil and the progress that will be made with the Porto Rico expedition will be such as to insure its starting very soon, in ten days at the latest. By the end oí the week also the flrst detaehment of troops for the Philippines oug-ht to reach Admiral Dewey and an attack upon Manila will be at once ordered if the city has not surrendered. The work for the troops when they have reached Sampson'B squadron is already definitely planned. The first point of attack will be the city of Guantanamo, some fifteen miles inland from the bay of the same name, and connected by rail with Caimanera, the scène of Saturday morning's battle between the United States marines and Spanish troops. The latter place is already under the American flag and it is not likely that Admiral Sampson will allow the adjacent city to remain in the possession of a Spanish garrison. Guantanamo bay is to be the base of supplies and a shelter for the American fleet and consequently must be absolutely free from any menace of danger. On the shores of the bay will be dumped thousands of tons of fuel, and this will obvíate the necessity of frequent returns to Key West, or even of coaling at sea. The main attack of the army will be at Santiago. The movement upon Guantanamo will be only a diversion, so to speak, and will not require a very large force for its accomplishment. The seizure of Santiago, it is thought, will not be a difficult undertaking. There can not be, in the flrst place, any serious opposition to the disembarking of troops. Every point which presents the least availibility as a landing place has been thoroughly shelled, so that all shore batteries have been silenced and nothing now remains to be taken except the fortifications along the inner harbor of the city itself. The latter, so far as army reports show, is not a strongly fortifled place, and the Spanish garrison conslsts very largely of volunteers who have been drafted into the service and who are not to be depended upon to put up a stout resistance.