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PEACE, The Spanish-American war'has, to all practical purposes, ended. Following the signing of the Protocol on the 12th of August by Secretary of State Day and French Ambassador Gambon, representing Spain, hostilities were at once suspended. The main: points in this document, to which accession was demanded of Spain before this country would consent to discuss peace at all are these 1.—Spain shall relinquish all claim of sovereignty and title to Cuba.
2.—Porto Rice and other Spanish islands in the West Indies and an island in the Ladrones, to be selected by the United States,. shall be ceded to the latter.
hold the city, bay, and harbour of Manila,.—The United States will opens pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which shall determine the control, disposition, and government of the Philippines.
4.—Cubs, Porto Rice and other Spanish islands in the West Indies shall be immediately evacuated.
Commissioners for the conclusion of definite treaty of peace are to mest at Paris not Inter than the first of October.
Thus the war has closed with the achievement of results by this country that w in no wise contemplated when hostilities were begun.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.