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Show REBELS DEMAND CITY SURRENDER jl? MEXICO CITY, May 7 Ignorant of the fact that a general armistice was Ml about to be signed, the rebels who fl have been surrounding Vera Cruz for fi several days this afternoon demanded the surrender of the placo and were 1 Joined In their demands by the marl ma-rl rlnes on the Mexican gunboat Bravo, according to an unconfirmed private ; message received here today. Ac-j Ac-j cording to this message, General i Maas, the commander of the port,.un- willing that blood should be shed at I this critical moment, and realizing ' , the weakness ot his forcos, Is said to' have offered to deliver the city to the rebols without resistance on ' condition that tho federal prisoners In San Juan de Uluu and the city prisoners pris-oners should not bo released. |