The San Francisco call., 1898-12-21
'6 HE WAR

showed that there were in nj his army Sn4ES lis2 men sick and 31a3 cases of fever
 witRout shot bsng fred I1 sefbe The AmeF mfs can conquerors were welcomed by the Mayor, cheered by the populace and sere- mad naded by band bands ,3,,I of music General Will
 JULY 2S-All General Niles troops were landed from the transports. Spanish troops are retreating from the southern this date. Ponce and it's port, having a population of 5O,O00, are now under the American flag. The populace received enthusiasm"
 JULY 29-President McKinley's reply to Spain's peace overtures demanded the in- dependence of Cuba, cesson of Porto Rico and Guam and the retention of Manila pending the final disposition of the Phil 1ppine Islands by joint commission. The Cabinet. decided against. the permanent
 JULY 30-President Mckinley's reply to Spain was placed in the hands of Am bassador Cambon.
 JULY 31-General Miles reported that the Spanish volunteers were surrendering themselves and that four-fifths of the people were overjoyed at the arrival Of the army: The Custom house at Ponce, he said. had already yielded $14 900.
 During a sharp engagement between our forces and the Spaniards at Malate, in the Philippines the American losses were thirteen killed and forty-seven wounded: AUGUST lit was decided to send eighteen regiments of volunteer troops to Porto Rico under General Wade. Sub sequent events. however, outran the ne- cessity for this additional force.
 AUGUST 2-An outline of our terms of ment:
 Tn order to remove any mlsapprehen- sion in regard to the negotiations as to peace between the United States and spain the President and Secretary Day explained. ''it Is deemed proper to say that the terms offered by the United States to Spain in the note handed to the French Ambassador on Saturday last are in substance as follows:
 The President does not now put for ward any claim for pecuniary indemnity. but requires the relinquishment of all claim Of sovereignty over. or tI,.e to- the island of Cuba as we'll as the immediate cession to the United States and immedi- ate evacuation of Porto Rico and other islands under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies; and the like cession of an will occupy and hold the city bay and harbor of Manila pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which shall deter mine the control, disposition and govern ment of the Philippines.
 If these terms are accepted by Spain in their entirety 1t is stated that Com missioners will be named by the United States to meet Commissioners on the part of Spain for the purpose of concluding a treaty of peace on the basis above indi- cated"
 AUGUST 3-The troops Gader General Brooke were landed in Porto Rico at
 In the meantime the troops from Sam tiago were being sent home on trans- ports, and there was much suffering from lack of proper care and accommodations. The Secretary of War on this date made an official statement designed as a reply to the indignation openly expressed by the public.
 General Shafter's officers in Cuba united in the famous round robin, expressing the conviction that the army must be moved at once or perish, and that the persons responsible for preventing such move will be responsible for the un- necessary loss of thousands of lives"
 AUGUST 1.-The Secretary of War or dered the troops to be relieved from fur ports could be provided.
 Resentment was shown in Spain be- o e the he f were made pub were discussed in the Spanish Cortes, but no final decision was reached.
 General Wade's proposed expedition to Porto Rico was suspended indefinitely,
 The .onterey arrived at Manila.
 AUGUST 5-A portion of General Brooke,s command in Porto Rico, in a tured Guayama- After a slight skirmish the town, with it's 16,000 inhabitants, sur rendered The natives repeated the per IOrmance Wnlcn marked the surrender Of Ponce. Cape San Juan, about thirty miles east of the city of San Juan, was also captured.
 It was announced that the Spanish Trans Atlantic Steamship Companv would be unable to fulfill it's contract for carrying the prisoners from Santiago to Spain.
 Orders from Washineton called for 500 hospital beds at the new camps at Mon- tauk oint, l.. l.. although General Shaf- ter's. report showed that 45OO men were on the sick list