The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-23

Washington, Aug. pa document
entirely unique in the annals of war
fare was cabled today to the war de-
partment from General Shafter. 1t is
in the form of a congratulatory fare
well address, issued to the soldiers OF
the American army by Pedro Lopez de
Castillo, a private Spanish soldier, on
| behalf of the 1000 Spanish soldiers
No similar document, perhaps, was
| ever before issued to a victorious army
| by a vanquished adversary.
| The president was very much I'M
pressed by the address. and, after read
| ing it carefully, authorized its publlca-
| ton.
Following is the text of the address
as cabled by General Shafter:
Major General Shafter, Commanding
the Army of Cuba. Sir: The Spanish
soldiers who capitulated in this place
on the 10th of July last, recognizing
your high and just position, pray that
through you all the courageous and no.
bic soldiers under your command may
receive the good wishes and farewell
which we send them on embarking for
our beloved Spain. For this favor,
which we have no doubt you will grant,
YOU will gain the everlasting gratitude
and consideration of II 900 Spanish SOL
diers, who are your most humble SER
wants.
(Signed)
PEDRO LOPEZ DE CASTILLO,
Private of Infantry"
Also the following letter, addressed
to the soldiers of the American army:
Soldiers of the American Army:
We would not be fulfilling our duties
as well-born men, in whose breasts
there lives gratitude and courtesy,
should we embark for our beloved
Spain without sending to you our most
cordial and sincere good wishes and
farewell. We fought you with ardor,
with ali our strength, endeavoring to
gain the victory, but without the
slightest rancor or hate towards the
American nation. We have been van
quished by you $50 our generals and
chiefs judged in signing the capitula-
tom, but our surrender and the bloody
battles preceding it have left in our
souls no place for resentment against
the men who fought US nobly and gal
lantly. You fought in compliance with
the same call of duty as we, for we all
but represent the power of our respect
i've states. You fought us as men, face
to face, and with great courage, as be-
fore stated, quality which we had not
met during the three years we nave
carried on this war against a people
without morals, without conscience and
of doubtful origin. who could not con-
front the enemy but, hidden, shot their
noble victims from ambush and then
fled. This is the kind of
warfare we had to sustain in this I'M
fortunate land. You have complied ex-
actly with all the laws and usages of
war, as recognized by the armies of the
most civilized nations of the world;
have given honorable burial to the dead
Of the VanquiShed; have cured their !
wounded with humanity; have re-
spected and cared for your prisoners |
and their comfort, and, lastly, to us, |
whose condition was terrible, you have !
given freely OF food, of your stock of |
medicines, and you have honored us |
with distinguished courtesy, for, after !
the fighting. the two armies mingled
with the utmost harmony
with this high sentiment of aDpre-
,iation from us all. there remains but
o express our farewell, and with the
greatest sincerity, we wish you all hap
,iDess and health in this land. which
VIE no longer belong to our dear Spain.
'Ut viii be yours. who have conquered
by force, and watered it with your
Hood. as your conscience called for, I'M
er he demand of civilization and hu-
1anity, but the descendants of the
'cDgo and of Guinea, mingled with the
lood of interruptions Spaniards and
traitors and adventures, these Deo-
lie are not able to exercise or enjoy
heir liberty, for they will find it a bur-
en- to comply with the laws which
overn civilized communities. |
From 11.0o0 Spanish soldiers. '
PEDRO LOPEZ DE CASTILLO.
Soldier of Infantry. :
Santiago de Cuba, Aug. q, 1885, !
CAPTURED ARMS.
A dispatch received by Adjutant Cen I
al Corbin tonight from General Shat
II indicates that, with the fall of San I
ago, 23,126 Spaniards surrendered. OF y
lis number d few less than 1900 were /
IerillaS and volunteers, making the h
tai to be returned to Spain about 21.- 7
0. General Shafter recommends that \
i the captured Mauser rifles and the :
for the same be shipped to u
me arsenal in the north with as little h
lay as possible, to prevent rust. There >
e several millions of this ammunition,
: reports, and probably 1000 or Il. 600
ands of these arms. A large number
those turned over by the Spaniards ,
ere Remingtons and another inferior Z
eapon.
General Shafter reports that there is
sickness among the incoming regi-
ents. is
In another dispatch, General Shafter
ates that he SO far now has sufficient b
at Santiago to bring the re- t
ainder of the American troops to the G.
lited States.
The Spanish prisoners are being en- a
rked to return to Spain and General u
after expresses the belief that all N
Ii be en- route to their home coun- il
by the latter part OF the week. N
q.