Held By Fever

Washington, July 25. - To the question "What is to be done with General Shafter's Fifth corps, now at Santiago?" the heads oL the war administratlor. can find but one answer. That is to íeep it in Cuba until every vestige oí yellow fever is stamped out of it. It can be stated positively and upon the highest possible authority that there is no intention of bringing the troops back to this country at the present time. The authorities here believe that it would be dangerous and criminal to run the risk of spreading the fever broadcast throughout this country by bringing the men back here so long as the pest is among them, and it is agreed that the. best place to flght the disease is right where they now are. Best Place to Fight It. Adjutant General Corb.n, when asked what it was proposed to do with the Santiago army, said: "What can we do but leave tbe troops there until they are free from the fever? Wp can't fight it anywhere flse as well as there. Undertake t br'ng them back to thip country now and it would infect every transport we have. and if we brought them back. where would we !and them? There is no city on the coast that would not rise up in arms at the very suggestion of landing a fever-infected army within its limits. Besides, there is no reason to believe that a removal at this time would be of advantage to the men themselves. No, the best and the only thing we can do is to fight the fever on its own ground, and until it is driven out of the army it would be madness to bring the army back to this country." Must Remain in Cuba. The administration would weicome more cordially than the opportunity of bringing the men who fought so bravely at Santiago back home and giving them the best camp to be had in the most salubrious chmate the country affords, but it is their conclusión that for the present at least, and so long as the fever rages, the Fifth corps will have to be kept where it is. As evidence that it is not intended to use the transports at Santiago to return the men there to this country, an order has been sent to General Shafter to have all the ships he has with hira sent back here at once for use in transporting the Porto Rico expedition.