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Show oo AWAKEN TO FIND ARSENALS EMPTY Mexico City. Aug. 13. When the inhabitants of the icderal capital! awakened this morning the arsenals: were empty, the barracks were deserted de-serted and the provisional president' of the republic, as well as the niem bers of his cabinet had vanished.! President Carbajal left the city on a special train bound for Vera t'ruz at .i.io a. in. Provisional President Carbajal left behind him a manifesto to the nation saying that he had done his best in a provisional capacity to save the coun-trv coun-trv from further bloodshed, but his peaceful overtures had been met on the part of the constitutionalists by uncompromising demands for an ur. conditional surrender Two paths lay before him, he said to fight or accede to the constltu tionallsts Under such conditions the president claimed that his government could no longer exist, and he concluded con-cluded "I b-ae the high iosi which I have occupied in the belief that I have fulfilled my duty toward my country and entrusting the lives and interests In the capital to the governor of the federal district "The whole responsibility for the future rests with the revolution, and If we should behold with affliction a repetition of the situation, which I am trsing to put at an end, the trutb will be manifested onee more that by lolence society cannot b" recon i strut ted Perfect quiet reigns throughout ths city nr. |