Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-07-16
Copyright, Associated Press.)


Before Santiago de Cuba, July IA,
6 D. M, via Kingston, Jamaica,
July Is, 1915 p. m.-The reverse
to the Spanish arms in eastern Gu
ba is complete.
Santiago has fallen, and with it
all the eastern end of the island.
Gen. Toral, the Spanish COM
mander, agreed to the general
terms of the surrender at a per-
sonal interview with Gen. Shafter
this afternoon at which Gen. Miles
was present.
The victorious American army,
after a campaign of three weeks of
almost unprecedented hardships
for both officers and men, accept
the news with heartfelt relief.
The victory is greater than ap-
peared at first. All the Spanish
troops in the fourth corps, the mil
itary division of Santiago province,
from a line drawn north from AS
seraderos, eighteen miles west of
Santiago, through Los Palmas,
Palmas Sorian, Alcantaza, to Sa-
qua de Tanamo, on the north
coast, and eastward to Cape Maysi,
are surrendered and the territory
is abandoned.
Between 5000 and 10000 Spanish
prisoners are taken, about 10000
of whom are in Santiago. The re-
mainder are at Guantanamo and
others are garrisoned in the towns
of eastern Cuba.
All these troops are to be en-
barked and sent back to Spain
under parole
Gen. Shafter bears his honors
modestly. To a correspondent of
the Associated Press he said:
"The enemy has surrendered all
the territory and troops east of
Santiago. The terms were dictated
from Washington.
1T has been a hard campaign:
one Of the hardest l ever saw. The
difficulties to contend with were
very great. Never during the civil
war were more difficult problems
solved. The character of the coun-
try and the roads made it seem al
most impossible to advance in the
face of the enemy. The transport
tation problem was hard, but all
the difficulties have been success
fully surmounted.
Our troops have behaved GAL
lantly. They fought like heroes
and | am proud to have command
of them. During all the hardships
they have suffered they have shown
resolution and spirit. They de-
serve 10 cOHQueT.
"The resistance of the enemy
has been exceedingly stubborn.
Gen. Toral has proved himself a
foeman worthy of any mans
steel.
"The negotiations which culmin-
ated in the surrender of Gen.
Toral have been dragging on for
ten days with the iltermission of
Sunday and Monday, when our ba.-
teries and fleet bombarded the enc
my's position. Throughout these
periods of truce, Gen. Toral has
shrewdly played for time, always
declining to surrender uncondition-
ally, and falling back, when hard
pressed, upon the statement that
he was simply subordinate and
powerless TO agree to the proposals
without the sanction of his super
iors, except under penalty of be-
ing court-martialed. AT the same
time he seemed to intimate that
personally h, thought it useless to
hold out any longer. But he and
his garrison were soldiers. he said,
and could die, if necessary, obey
ing orders"
1t was at the personal interview
held by Gen. Shafter with Gen.
Toral yesterday that the Ameri-
can general made the Spanish
commander understand that tenn
porizing must cease and that be-
fore noon to-day categorical .af-
firmation to his offer must be re-.
ceivsd or the bombardment of the
city would begin in earnest.
In the meantime ell our plans