The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-23

OlSpdtCheS tnat SPAIN VIII expect IN
demnity for all government property,
buildings, barracks, Notifications, etc,
in Cuba, Porto Rico, and elsewhere,
has excited much comment, as show
ing the difficult questions to be treat
ed by the military and peace commits
siOns. In official quarters here there
is no disposition to make a counter
claim to Sagasta's proposition, for this
will be done in due time before the
commissions, and there is no LurpOse
to outline the governments policy in
advance. At the same time, leading
officials express their individual opin-
ion that Premier Sagasta's claim is
very far-fetched, as it is said to be the
established rule Of international law
that all public property of a sovereign
government passes to the ~cOnquerer
when a change of territory occurs. The
rule is equally we'll established that
private property undergoes no change.
The question is somewhat complicated
in the present case by the fact that
Cuba and Porto Rico are not acquired
strictly by conquest, but rather by
mutual agreement. In the case of Gu
ba the question is further complicated
by the fact that the United States has
not asserted a purpose to acquire or
annex the territory, but merely to
free it from Spanish domination.
The war department has received the
following:
Hong Kong, August 20.
"Adjutant General, Washington, D. c.:
I'm assault on Manilt August 18Th
Genera Anderson commanding divis-
ion, General Macarthur, First brigade;
General Greene, Second. Losses were
as follows:
"Killed-First Sergeant Holmes, AS
tor battery; Sergeant Crimins, Aston
battery; Bugler Patterson, Thirteenth
Minnesota; Private ThOlen, Twenty
third infantry Private DinsmOre,
First California.
acknowledgement Seabeck, Thir-
taenth Minnesota, serious; Captain
Bjornstad, same regiment, badly;
Lieutenant Bunker, same regiment,
slightly, and forty enlisted men.
"MERRITT.'
The war department received the
following dispatch from General Mer-
rift late this afternoon:
Hong Kong, August 20.
"Adjutant General, Washington, D. c.:
your Cablegram of the 18th, di-
reCting military operations be suspend
ed, received afternoon of the 18th.
Spanish commander notified. AcknOWl-
edge receipt of cablegram same date
containing proclamation of president.
"MERRITT."
The wal department. late his af-
ternOon posted the following cable
gram from General Merritt giving the
terms of the capitulation of Manila:
Hong Kong, August 20.
"Adjutant General, Washington, D. c.:
The following are the terms of the
Capitulation:
The undersigned, having appointed
q commission to determine the details
of the ~capitulatiOn of the city and
defences of Manila and it's suburbs and
the Spanish forces stationed there, in
accordance with agreement entered
Into the previous day by Major Cen
eral Wesley Merritt, u. S. A, Ameri-
can COmmander-in-chief in the Philip
pines, and his excellency, Don Fermin
JeademeS, acting general-in-chief of
the Spanish army in the Philippines,
ave agreed upon the following:
q The Spanish troops. European
and native, capitulate with tie city
and defences, with all hOnors of war,
depositing their arms in the places
designated by the authorities of the
United States and remaining in quar-
tiers designated and under the United
States authorities, until the conclusion
of a treaty of peace between the two
belligerent nations.
''All persons included in the capt.
ulatiOn remain at liberty. the officers
remaining in their respective homes,
which shall be respected as long as
they observe the regulations prescrib-
ed for their government and the law
in force.
90. Officers shall retain their side
arms, horses and private properties.
All public horses and public property
of all kinds shall be turned over to the
staff officers designated by the Unit
ed States.
-. Complete returns in duplicate
of men by organizations and full lists
of public property and stores shall be
rendered to the United States within
ten days from this date.
a.. All questions relating to the
repatriation of officers and men of the
Spanish forces and of their families
and of the expenses which said re-
patriatiOn may occasion shall be re-
ferred to the government of the Unit
ed States at Washington. Spanish
families may leave Manila al any
time convenient to them. The return
of the arms surrendered by the Span
lSh forces shall take place When they
e~vacuate the city or when the Aneri-
can army evacuates.
50. Officers and men included in
the Capitulation shall be supplied by
the United States according to their
rank, with rations and necessary aid
as though they were prisoners of war
until the conclusion of a treaty OF
peace between the United States and
Spain. All the funds in the Spanish
treasury and all other funds shall be
turned over to the authorities Of tn;
United States.
go. This city, it's inhabitants. its
churches and religious worship its ed
ucatiOnal establishments and it's pri-
vate property of all descriptions, are
placed under special safeguard of the