The record-union., 1898-08-23
Over TWenty-Three Thousand Span
iardS Surrendered.
Spanish Prisoners viii All Soon Be En-
Route to Their Homes.
They Send a Document to General
Shafter Praising the Americans
for the Treatment They Re-
ceived at Their Hands After the
Surrender.

Surrender.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-A dispatch
received by General Corbin tonight
from General Shafter indicates that.
with the fall of Santiago. 23. .126 Span
iards surrendered. OF this number q
volunteers, making the total to be re-
turned to Spain about 21 1000. General
Shafter recommends that all the cap
tured Mauser rifles and the ammunition
for the same be shipped to some ar
senal in the North with as little delay
as possible, to prevent rust There are
several million rounds of this ammuni-
ton, he reports, and probably 10000 or
$4,000 stands of these arms. A large
number of those turned over by the
Spaniards were Remngtons and an
other inferior weapon.
General Shafter reports that there is
no sickness among the incoming regi-
ments.
In another dispatch General Shafter
states that he so far now has suffi-
cient transports at Santiago to bring
the remainder of the American troops
to the United States.
The Spanish prisoners are being en-
barked to return to Spain, and Cen
eral Shafter expresses the belief that
all will be en- route to their home coun-
try by the latter part of the week.
SPANISH PRAISE AMERICAN
TROOPS.
a document entirely unique in thu
annals of warfare was cabled tonight
to the War Department by General
f.s IN, hn of
gratulatory farewell address issued to
the soldiers of the American army by
Pedro Lopez de Castillo. a private
Spanish soldier, on behalf of the H.
000 Spanish soldiers. No similar docu-
ment, perhaps, was ever before issued
to victorious army by a vanquished
adversary. The President was very
much impressed by the address, and
after reading it carefully, authorized
it's publication.
Following is the text of the address
as cabled by General Shafter:
Santiago de Cuba, Aug. ID, 1898.
II. G. Corbin, Adjutant General, L.
s. A, Washington: The following let
ter has just been received from the SOL
diers embarking for Spain:
major General Shafter, command
ing the American army in 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 courage
Gus and noble 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 ever
lasting gratitude and consideration OF
11,O0O Spanish soldiers, who are your
most humble servants.
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 duty as we'll
born men, in whose breasts there lives
gratitude and courtesy, should we en-
bark for our beloved Spain without
sending to you our most cordial and
sincere good wishes and farewell. We
fought you with ardor,. with all our
strength. endeavoring TO gain the VIC
tory. but without the slightest rancor
or hate toward the American nation.
We have been vanquished by you $50
our Generals and chiefs judged in sign
ing the capitulation), but our surrender
and the bloody battles preceding it
have left in our souls no place for re-
sentiment against the men who fought
us nobly and gallantly.
You fought in compliance with the
same call of duty as we, for we all but
represent the power of our respective
States. You fought us as men, face
fo wifi or o. -
fore stated, quality which we had not
met during the three years we have
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
Immediately fled. This was the kind
of warfare we had to sustain in this
unfortunate land.
"You have complied exactly with all
the laws and usages of war as recog-
nized by the armies of the most civil
lied nations of the world; have given
honorable burial to the dead of the van
quished; have cared for their wounded
with great humanity; have respected
and cared for your prisoners and their
comfort and, lastly, to us, whose con-
dlt1On was terrible, you nave given
freely of food, of your stock of medi-
cines, 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 appre-
citation from us, all there remains is but
to express our farewell, and with the
greatest sincerity, we wish you all hap
piness and health in this land of yours,
who have conquered it by force and
watered it with your blood, as your
conscience called for, under the de-
mand of civilization and humanity; but
the descendants of the Congo and Of
Guinea, mingled with the blood of un-
scrupulous Spaniards and of traitors
and adventurers, these people are not
able to exercise or enjoy their liberty.
for they will find it a burden to COM
ply with the laws which govern cilil-
lied communities.
From 11,000 Spanish soldiers.
"PEDRO LOPEZ DE CASTILLO.
Soldier of Infantry"
ssSantia oO de Cuba August C1 1898