A Spanish Blunder

Washington, Der. 15. - Señor Quosada, in charge of the Cuban headquarters, has documenta boaring on thfi treatment of soldiere in Cuba which lio Intends to use before congress in attempting to secure from tliat body action favorable to the insurgents' cause, and wliieh, he conlends, accord to the Cubans the rights of belligereucy. They assert, he says, that the Si nlards agreed to abide by the terms of the Goneva Red Cross agreement for the treatment of soldiere captured in ar, whica they failed utterly lo keop, notwithstanding th.e Cu! treated tho Spanish captives with great lanlmlty. Tho most importan documents, Señor Quesada says, s the following: "In the cattle ranch El Platno, state oL Camaguey, on the 2d of November, 1896, Dr. Edward Padro, lieutenantcolonol of tho military sanitary department of the army of liberatlon of Cuba, and Dr. Manuel Huelva Romero, physician of the flrst class of the Spanish army, being present. "Dr. Padro said that by order and representation of Maj.-Gen. Calixto García Nignec, chief of the military department of the cast, and by virtue of a communication that the said superior chief had sent and was sending to the ehief of the Spanish army, Adolfo Jimenz Castellanos, in regard to the universal laws of war that the Cuban army observad (although they are not observed by the Spanish army), he dclivered In this act to Dr. Huelva twenty-two Blek and woundod, flve sanitary employés, four civlliana, Dr. Fernando Peros de Laeruz, and an officer of the flrst class of the military department, Jllio Pérez Pitaren, said individuáis being all taken priaoners in the field hospital of the Spanish army to which they belongod, in the capture of the town of Guaimaro by the Cubans, under the orders of Maj.-Gen. Calixto Garcia, which took place on the 28th of last October. "And Dr. Manuel Huelva Romero said that in representation of the Spanish Gen. Castellanos and in conformity with what has been declared by Dr. Padro, he admits the receipt of the Blek, wounded, and othrr prisoners mentioned, declaring that among the wounded there is a chief offleer, and in order that it shall appear from the proceedings for ita proper use, they draw up the present minutes, making two of the same tenor.