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Show I MEXICAN REBELS TAKE TWO CITIES Mexico City. Dec 25. Minister of the Interior Hermandcz last night denied de-nied that rebels had taken Casos Grandes and Asccncion. He said tho government forces were removed from these places owi-j to the necessity for tho use cf all available troops in the campaign in the southern and middle mid-dle states. Saustine Ollvera, a 3tate deputy, has joined the the revolt In Oaxaca. where the uprising of other chiefs has given fresh Impetus to the rebel movement. move-ment. A newspaper man who has returned to Mexico City from the state of Guerrero, Guer-rero, says the rural regions are controlled con-trolled by the rebels. In tho state of Morelos and the bordering bor-dering states of Puebla and Mexico a terrible war of extermination Is in progress. Non-combatants In the Btate of Mexico arc petitioning tho government to cease the wholesale summary executions exe-cutions there as the rebels are making mak-ing reprisals, often-tlmes upon non-combatants. |