Show VICTOR IS 18 GREAT with the U S troops before santiago de cuba july 14 6 p in via kingston jamaica july 15 1215 p m L copyright 1898 by the associated press the reverse to the spanish a arms in eastern cuba is complete santiago has fallen and with it all the eastern end of the island general toral the spanish commander agreed to the general terms of the surrender at a personal interview ew with general shatter shafter this afternoon at which general miles was present the armies have had a campaign of three weeks of unprecedented hardships for both officers and privates the victory of the americans is greater than expected at first the spanish troops in the fourth corps the military division of santiago province from a line drawn north irom Ase eighteen miles west of santiago through los lios palmas palmas alcantara Alcan taza to sagua bagua de canamo on the north coast and eastward to cape caysi are surrendered and the territory to is abandoned between and spanish prisoners axe are taken about of whom are in santiago the remainder are at guantanamo and others are garrisoned in the towns of eastern cuba all these troops are to be embarked and sent back to spain under parole gen shatter shafter bears his honors modestly to a correspondent of the associated soc socia ted press he sald said the enemy has surrendered all the territory and troops east of santiago the terms were dictated from washington it has been a hard campaign one of the hardest I 1 ever saw the difficulties to contend with were very great never during our civil war were more difficult problems solved the character of the country and the roads made it seem almost impossible to advance in the face of the enemy the transportation problem was hard but all the difficulties have been successfully surmounted our troops have behaved gallantly they fought like heroes and 1 I am proud to have command of them during all the hard E bips they have suffered they have shown resolution and spirit they deserve to conquer the resistance off at the enemy has been exceedingly stubborn gen toral has haa proved himself a foeman worthy of any mans steel the negotiations which culminated in the surrender of gen toral have been dragging on tor for ten days with the intermission of sunday runday and monday when our batter batte tec riles and fleet bombarded the poof position tion these period of truce oen gen TOV ay fallen back aften eft hard preyed taft W the tate meni t that he was simply a subordinate and po pair erless to agree to the proposals without the sanction of his superiors ex 4 capt under penalty of being court 4 martial led at the same time kie he l seemed to intimate that personally hw 1 thought it useless to hold out any an t longer but he and his garrison were soldiers he said and could die if feces sary obeying orders it was at the personal interview held heia 11 by gen shatter shafter with gen toral yes ve Q 4 berday that the american general mada the spanish commander under understand stan that temporizing must cease and t that 1 before noon today a categorical affirms rm tion to his offer must be rece received ed sw the bombardment of the el city bottis wo begin in earnest in the meantime all our plans haa been perfected the delay haa haai been beeb utilized to good advantage our 1 had been extended until santiago was waa surrounded and our light ligh bat ba teries had been so posted as to be ame ahl bib fc to do more effective work in addition arrangements had bemi bee made to land troops at cabanada Cabana west of the entrance of the harbor gozt A mL santiago the spanish batter iea ow cosite morro castle were to be barded baided and stormed ormed at their guns then to be turned upon the cit city y asa ero 1 l gen lawtons lawtonw Law tons division at the time was to fall on the eneta Ys left etelk flank under the cover of our artill artt ll fire we could then have enfiladed t thad lines anea and have driven them into ass city 1 gen toral must have realized that if be was trapped and that to hold out te ger must mean a useless sacrifice of oft men but he made one last effort A gain more time this morning w nominally yielding to the terms colw shatter proposed before 8 sent a communication to gen aitha shafta enclosing 9 a copy of a telegram fro captain general blanco explain hSi tha the surrender of budh an I 1 ant posit position loh as santiago and the a dorment of eastern cuba would sil quire the direct sanction of the mad government and requiring more alms be heard from madrid at the time capt gen blanco authorized toral it if it was agreeable to the A amsl can general to appoint on each side to arrange the tei termaro eryn capitulation of the forces under ifal command on the con condition dl tio n 0 of f th their air a ir ns role and transportation to spain a headquarters santiago via pl iii july 18 16 adjutant general wa ington sent you several tele yesterday as did gen miles in r rea to the surrender gen toral sun yesterday positively to surrender the forces under his command in ern cuba upon a distinct unde ing that they were to be sent to by the united states this surreno was authorized by gen blanco a that its submission tomorrow x merely formal the commiss lonen lonerg j arrange details were ampol appoint wheeler lawton and miley on part of the united states points immediately raised by spanish missioners ners the discussion lasted 10 last night my com commissio commis think the matter will be settled 1 and met at 1030 this morning 1 are about troops in the city about as many more in the ing districts in all will be tri ported gen miles was present said the surrender was wag as absolute complete as possible it cannot be sible that there will be failure tub in 4 plating arrangements water feml faill the city to is imminent have supa SUB this was told tola lieu aleut wa miley by 07 ins commissioner bif wire frea an fn when negotiations are progreso irl major general commar would only mame a i in yi 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