The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-08-23
A Soldiers Tribute to a Vic
tOrOuS Foe.
HE LOVES NOT THE CUBANS
Most Remarkable Document From a
Vanquished Adversary = Thanks
and Best Wishes rendered BY the
Spanish Soldiers.

WASHINGTON, Aug %. "A document
entirely unique in the annals of warfare
was cabIed to the war department today
by General Shafter. 1t is in the form of
congratulatory farewell address issued
to the soldiers of the American army by
Pedro Lopez de Castillo, private Span
ish soldier, on behalf of TIE II 900 Span
ish soldiers. No similar document, per-
haps, was ever before issued to a vic
torious army by an vanquished adver-.
cary. The president was very much
impressed by the address, and after
reading it carefully, authorized its pub
licatlon. The following is the text of
the address as cabled by General Shaf-
ter:
Santiago de Cuba, Aug, 22.-H. Z.
Corbin, Adjutant- General, U. S. A.,
Washington: The following letter has
just been received from the soldiers just
embarking for Spain:
"Major-General Shafter, Command
ing the American Army in Cuba.-Sir:
The Spanish soldiers who capitulated in
this place on July 10th last, recognizing
your high and just position, pray that
through you all the courageous and no.
BILE soldiers under your command may
receive the greatest wishes and farewell
which we send them on embarking for
lolo - L Il
we have no doubt you will grant, you
will gain the everlasting gratitude and
consideration of IL 900 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 send
ing to you our most cordial and sincere
good wishes and rewell. We fought
you with ardor, with all our strength,
endeavoring to gain the victory, but
ward the American nation. We have
been vanquished by you ESQ our generals
and chief judged in signing the capitu-
lationl, but our surrender and the bloody
battles proceeding it have left in our
souls no place for resentment against
the men who fought US nobly and gall
lantly. You fought in compliance with
the same call of duty as we, for we all
but represent the power of our respec-
tive states.
"You fought US as men, face to face,
and with great courage, as before stated,
EQUALITY with which we have not met
during the three years we have carried
on this war against the people without
morals, without conscience and of doubt
full origin, who would not confront the
enemy, but hidden, shot their noble
victims from ambush and then immedi-
atcly fed. 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 civilized
nations of the world; have given honor
able burial to the dead of the Yanquished
with humanity have respected 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,