The Evening Herald

WEYLER PROCLAIMS
Cuba's Captain General Kept Busy
Writing Orders.

FIFTEEN DAYS TO SURRENDER.

The 'Little Rebel Bands' Will be Permitted to Lay Down Their Arms If So Inclined—Meanwhile Alleged Spanish Victories Are Reported.

HAVANA, March 9.—Captain General Weyler has issued the following circulars:

'I have promulgated an order that the teachers of divinity of the provinces of Matanzas, Santa Clara, Puerto Principe and Santiago de Cuba who have taken part in the movements of the rebels shall be pardoned on making their submission, surrendering their arms and placing themselves under the surveillance of the lawful authority, provided they have not committed other crimes since the issuance of my last proclamation.

'The teachers of divinity who, without arms, shall come in under the same circumstances, will be immediately transferred to the encampments, forts, towns and in general where they may be under the immediate vigilance of the troops, and all the teachers shall be under the control of the commandants in whatever jurisdiction they may be assigned. They will become permanently attached to the military forces, and will give their attentions to the dying, and will be entitled to such rations as troops in the field or traveling.

'These directions will not go into effect in the provinces of Pinar del Rio and Havana until these provinces have extended to them the prevailing law in the case of those who deliver themselves up to the authorities.'

Another proclamation by General Weyler is as follows:

'I make known to our harassed troops and to those who attempt to demoralize them as they pursue eastward the rebel parties more numerous than those whom they leave in the provinces of Pinar del Rio and Havana, that the time has arrived to pursue with the greatest activity and rigor the little bands, more of outlaws than insurgents, who have remained in the said provinces, and to adopt whatever measures are necessary for the proper and immediate carrying out of that intention.

'Each community may arm a section of volunteers or guerrillas of thirty men, equipped as infantry soldiers, which force will defend the country and operate under orders of the military authorities of the locality. Each section may be commanded by retired officers, or deputed officials, or by other persons of satisfactory qualifications and antecedents.

'The authorities of the villages who will show themselves friendly within a term of ten days, and those of the vicinity of the same, and all those within its limits that are engaged in the insurrection, are warned to surrender themselves within the space of fifteen days from the publication of this proclamation, otherwise they will be subject to arrest.

'Rebels who may not be responsible for any other crime than rebellion, who within fifteen days present themselves to the nearest military authority, and who will assist in the apprehension of any one guilty of the burning, robbing and sacking, will not be molested, but will be placed at my disposal. Those who have presented themselves at any earlier time will be pardoned.'