The San Francisco call., 1898-05-27
SOLDIERS, NOT
 INSURGENTS That Is How Gomez Styles His Patriots. ONLY CIVILIZED WARFARE. ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC NOT TO EMULATE SPANIARDS. Denunciation of the Brutal Methods of Castilians by the Com
 mander-in -in-Chief or
 the Cubans.
ONLY CIVILIZED WARFARE.
ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC NOT
 TO EMULATE SPANIARDS.
Special Dispatch to The Cali.

NEW YORK. May 26.-Thomas Els trada 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. Be- sides the official notices and orders is- sued to the army the paper contains a lengthy address issued to the Cuban army and people by General Gomez, in which he says:
 l, Maximo Gomez, commander-in-chief of the Cuban army, take this opportun- ity through the medium of Las Villas, which hereafter will be published once each week at the headquarters of the army of liberation, to communicate with those of my command and our people. In view of the adoption of the constitution of the republic of Cuba and the armed intervention of the United States in our behalf to aid us in obtaining our inde- pendence, which soon will be recognized by all the world, I desire to make known that hereafter our soldiers no longer shall be known as insurgents, but soldiers of the regular army of the republic.
 I hereby direct that there shall be is- sued each week a war bulletin, which shall be published at the general head this issue on the 10th day of May, to be known as Las Villas. It will be circu- lated under the direction and by the au- thority of the staff officers of the army, and in it will be published all circulars, orders and official notes of the War De- partment as well as information which our army and our people may desire to know concerning our progress and our allies, the United States.
 take this occasion to remind each Cuban in service that he now has a coun- try recognized for which he must fight with all honor and glory. He Is now a Cuban soldier and not an insurgent, and Will respect the rules of civilized warfare. will order punished any chief officer or private who fails to respect the rights of our prisoners of war, and such prisoners will be treated with respect to their rank and according to the rules of civilized countries and the constitutional army.
 Our soldiers will conduct themselves in such manner as to gain for themselves the god offices of our brethren of the United States, and for this reason it is my wish that the army of Cuba may ex- hibit model discipline. I desire to inn this war which so valiantly has been kept up for the past three years with the idea of revenge. We are fighting for lib- erty and independence, and not for re- the fact that the history of the world shows that loss of blood has always been the price of liberty.
 Notwithstanding, we must ever re- member our dead martyrs to the cause of Cuban freedom and fight the good fight, and it will not be long before every SpdlllSn SOIOleT SQdll nave left soil. We have had to contend against a most cruel enemy-one which has known no honor, and its methods have been most barbarous, and every act of Spain has shown the thirst for blood and desire to trample down and annihilate the people of Cuba l do not desire that our army shall emulate their example, but I would prefer that our methods of war be those of civilized nations; that we may show to the enemy that those whom they are fighting are more honorable than themselves.
 In recent proclamation by General Blanco he made the statement that it now was the duty of all Spaniards to die for their honor in the war against the United States. Spain does not know the meaning of honor. Her definition of the word is nothing but cruelty.
 Spanish soldiers have never been known to die for honor except when they were opposed as ten to one. Their idea of honor has been to assassinate defenseiess women and children whose protectors are now fighting for freedom in our army Their idea of honor has been to rob, to plunder They die for honor drinking, gambling and committing crimes against humanity and against society; but now they will die before American and Cuban arms
 I take this opportunity to speak thus to our people and our army that they may be encouraged and know that we now have noble allies, who will aid us Tn our fight for freedom, which long mas been deserved, and which we can now see VIII VIII be reality at no distant day. shall also from time to time, in Las Villas. communicate with you Tn the same