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Ist. No newspaper shall publish any news concerning the war which is not authorized by the staff officers. 2nd. Neither shall be published any telegraphic communications of a political character without the authority given by the secretary of the governor-general in Havana, or by the civil governors in the other provinces. 3rd. It is hereby forbidden to publish any editorials, or other articles or illustrations, which may directly or indirectly tend to lessen the prestige of the mother-country, the army, or the authorities, or to exaggerate the forces and the importance of the insurrection, or in any way to favor the latter, or to cause unfounded alarm, or excite the feelings of the people. 4th. The infractions of this decree, not included in Articles first and sixth of the decree of February 16th last, will make the offenders liable to the penalties named in Article 36, of the law of the 23rd of April, 1870. 5th. All persons referred to in Article 14 of the Penal Code of the Peninsula, which is in force in this Island, will be held responsible for said infractions in the same order as established by the said Article. 6th. Whenever a newspaper has twice incurred the penalty of said offense, and shall give cause for a third penalty, it may then be suppressed. 7th. The civil governors are in charge of the fulfilment of this decree, and against their resolutions, which must be always well founded, the interested parties may appeal within the twenty-four hours following their notification. VALERIANO WEYLER. Havana, April 27,1896.