Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-15
TORAL
YIELDS
SurrenderS at Last
With All Of His
Troops.
ARRANGING TERMS.
He Wants His Army Taken
ARRANGING TERMS.
He Wants His Army Taken
Back Home.
COMMISSION MEETING
Surrender Includes Practical
ly the Fourth Army Corps.

Shafter Sent WOfu Earier III S"o Lay
That Toral Had Appointed a Commits
sion to Debate the Terms of Surrender,
and Was Then Told by the Administra-
ton That Unconditional and Immediate
Surrender Was All That He Would BE
Allowed to Acceptable Spaniards May
Not be Sent Home In Our Ships, After
All. Unless Spain VIII Agree to Allow
Them Free Passage - Major General
Brooke Ordered to Washington From
Chickamauga to Consult Regarding the
Porto Rico Expedition - No More Re-
ports Regarding the Yellow Fever Sit
uation Among Our Soldiers In Cuba.
Washington, July 15.-The adjutant
general has received the following from
General Shafter from Playa del Este:
Have just returned from interview
with General Toral. He agrees to sur
render upon the basis of being returned
to Spain. This proposition embraces
all of eastern Cuba from Acerra-
deros, on the south, to Sagua, on the
north, via Palma, with practically the
Fourth army corps, commissioners
meeting to definitely arrange the
terms
1t is doubtful if the Spanish forces in
volved in the surrender of General To-
raj will be taken back to Spain in
American vessels unless there is an Off
cial pledge for the safety of our craft
and their crews. Secretary Alger had no
hesitation in making the statement that
he doubted if Spain wanted the prisoners
brought back there and said that if
transported in our own vessels and
without some agreement with the Span
ish representatives Spain would not re-
frain Selling them. 1t is a very knotty
problem which will be tackled by the
commissioners arranging the capitula-
ton under the directions of the authori-
ties here.
Washington, July 15.-News from the
front was awaited with the greatest
anxiety all day. Overshadowing even
the interest felt in the condition Of the
fever patients was the subject of sur
render. Dispatches from Shafter and
from Miles made it evident that in the
opinion of these officers the end was
near. Word at last came from the front
that the Spaniards has proposed COM
mission to adjust the final terms of sur
render.
This is said to be no novelty in war
fare, and especially in such cases as this,
where complex considerations are in
volved. The proposition to remove the
Spanish army in the province of San
tiago, divided as it is between several
towns remote from one another to Sc
cure the removal of dangerous obstruc-
lions in ports and to arrange the details
of transportation of this army, involves
so many factors that considerable time
might very properly be expended in adj
justing them.
In some quarters it was declared that
the Spanish proposition was simply an
other scheme On the part of General
Toral to gain time, he being fully aware
of the uncomfortable and dangerous po-
sition of the American troops from a
sanitary point of view, and realizing
that every days delay but added to
tlseir misery. However, if that was his
purpose, he was not at all successful in
his object.
No More Time.
Secretary Alger declared most en-
phatically that no further time would
be granted for decision upon the main
proposition surrender and if the
Spanish general did not declare at once
his Willingness to do this the attack on
Santiago would be resumed. 1t is pre-
sumed that as Toral yielded on the
main principle of surrender with the
expectation of being transported to
Spain with his army, there will be no
objection to the appointment of COM
missioners to adjust the details Of the
surrender
Adjutant General Corbin looked upon
the surrender as settled, and he said as
much Immediately upon his return from
conference with the president at the
White House. In his opinion the only
thing that remained was to agree upon
certain essential details, such as where
the Spanish troops should surrender,
whether in town or whether they should
be marched out on the plains and there
lay down their arms. 1t is also posi-
BILE he said, that the question of time
might eIlef lI1lO lne mattGf-aS TO
whether the evacuation of the town
should begin at exactly noon or wheth-
er the actual surrender should occur at
that hour or a short time thereafter.
He said that the use of the term "com-
missioners" was apt to be misunder-
stood to mean formal commission ST.
ting In deliberate session for days.
An enormous number Of transports
would be required to carry out our part
of the obligation. Some idea of the
size Of that fleet may he gathered from
the mere mention of the difficulties that
Shafter experienced in landing in Cuba
his first detachment of $4,000 men,
though he had at Tampa all the con-
veniences of a well equipped Anne, lean
port.
1T is roughly estimated that there
are now in, Santiago province no less
than 10000 Spanish soldiers, and to
transport these men to Spain, allowing
for the presence on each of the trans
ports of suitable guard from tho
American army, there will be required
no less than As large steamers, num-
Der in excess of the entire fleet of trans.
ports now available in southern waters.
Major General Brooke has been Or