The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-05-27
GOMEZ WAR BULLETINS
IsSUED TO THE SOLDIERS OF THE
CUBAN ARMY
NO LONGER MERE INSURGENTS
They Should Fight a. Becomes Civil
lied Men Struggling for Liberty,
Not for Revenge
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
NEW YORK, May 26.-Thomas Estrada
Palma, the representative Of the Cuban
| republic In New York, has just received the
| first copy Of Las Villas, the war bulletin
which is published by authority of General
Gomez at the headquarters of the Cuban
army. 1t contains the official news ana
movements of the army of liberation and
is an interesting publication. Printed, of
course. in Spanish. it comprises three col
umns on two sides of a sheet about ten by
fourteen inches. The paper has green
ish tint and the type is set up and printed
at General Gomez's headquarters under
his direction. The first number, under
date of May 10, 1898. is designated as Sup
plement A." and contains half-column
account of the battle of Manila, which con-
veyed for the first time to the soldiers OF
the Cuban army the facts concerning Rear
Admiral Dewey's victory in the Philip
pines. Besides the official notices and or
ders issued to the army the paper con-
tains lengthy address issued to the Gu
ban army and people by General Gomez.
in which he says:
Il, Maxine Gomez. Commander-in-
Chief of the Cuban Army, take this on
portunity through the medium of Las Viii
las, which hereafter will be published each
week at the headquarters of ths army of
liberation, to communicate with those OF
my command and our people. In view of
the adoption of the constitution Of the re-
public Of Cuba and the armed Intervention
of the United States in our behalf, TO aid US
in obtaining our independence. which soon
will be recognized by all the world, de-
sire to make known that hereafter our
soldiers no longer shall be known as in
surgents, but soldiers of the regular army
of the republic,
at herebv direct that there shall, he ,ssued
ga cb week a war bu,let,n which shall he
nubl,shed a. the rerer., hea0cuarters n,
the armv and shall begin with this issue nm
tho tenth dav of Nov IN be known a. ms
villas If vii, ha c,rcu,ot tod rndsr tha a.
rection and nv the authority of the stan
officers of the army and in II will Ia NH
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