Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-06

heid prisoners for having been directly
or indirectly connected with the insur-
rection; secondly, ali prisoners of war
condemned as traitors, revolters or de-
serters, or for having in any manner
seconded the Filipino movement during
the present century, this surrender to
be made before the Filipinos release
the Spanish prisoners, and Spain to
grant amnesty to all Filipinos and
Spaniards accused of completely in the
instruction.
3. Spain to defray All the expenses Of
repatriating the Filipino prisoners, and
also the cost of maintaining and repa-
triating the Spanish prisoners held by
the Filipinos, such payment being con-
sidered a war indemnity; the national
fllipino government consents to pay
the expense of rcpatriating those Fill
iplnos captured in formal action, al
though, 1t is added. "as a matter of
TACT the Filipinos are also entitled to
demand the payment thereof by SPAIN"
WILL NOT EXCHANGE FRIARs.
Friars taken prisoners. it is further
asserted, Will not be included in the
excf1aHgu,- -seefng THAT rhey acted ms
papal agents during the war, but their
surrender would be made on the con-
d1tion, firstly, that the apostolic dele
gate will ask their liberty in the name
or the Pope; secondly, that all bulls
ana pontihcal DEGREES granting special
privileges to the religious orders be re-
Voked; thirdly. that all rites of the Sc
GUAR clergy be respected; fourthly,
that no friar hold any parish, cathed-
raj, episcopal or diocesan preferment:
nithly, that all such preferments be
heid by native or naturalized Filipino
clergy, and. sixthly, that rules for the
election OF bishops be fixed"
SPAIN RECEIVES OFFICIAL NO
TICE.
Madrid. Jan. 5.-The following official
dispatch has been received from Ma
nila
The insurgents refuse to liberate the
prisoners on the demand of the Amer
leans. claiming that this might be con-
strued as an act of submission 10 the
United States. With regard to liberatins
the monks. the insurgents intend to ne
gotiate with the Vatican directly. Gem
eral Rios has now opened direct nego-
tiations with the insurgents concern
ing the prisoners"
NO WORD FROM OTIS.
Washington. d. c., Jan. Sit was
said ct the War Department to-day
that no word of any sort had been re-
ceived from General Otis since the last
published advices. The Paris dispatch
without comment. and those in author
ity refused to say whether any ere
dence ives placed in il or whether any
fresh advices had been sent to General
Otis.
U. S. TROOPS SHALL NOT LAND.
Hong Kong. Jan. 5.-Leading repre-
sentatives of the Filipino junta in
Hong Kong in the course of an inter-
view with the correspondent Of the AS
ISOLATED press to-day declared that the
serious crisis in the Philippines is due
to what they designate as overt, I'M
fair treatment of the Filipinos by the
United States" They said that despite
the known fact that the whole of the
Visayas group was in possession of the
Filipino forces, General Otis was order
ed to take possession of the entire arch
ipelago and dispatched troops and war
ships TO the Southern Vissayas. The
Filipinos, according to the junta repre-
sentatives. are determined to prevent
the landing of the Americans at Toilo,
and may as last resort destroy the
city for strategical purposes.