The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-04-24
EXPECTS TO SAIL WITHIN A FORT
NlGHT-WlLL ASSIST
DlAZ.
WANTS TO SERVE COUNTRY
Ex-Minister of War Praises President
Diaz-Hopes America Will
Not Intervene.

Paris, April 24.-Don Bernardmo
Reyes, the Mexican ex-minister Of war.
has received a call from President
Diaz to return at once to Mexico Diaz
asks his aid in the attempt to settle
the revolution.
General Reyes expects to sail for
New York within a ortnight-perhap
a week.
This in brief is the distinguished
soldiers declaration to the Associated
Press:
For many months General Reyes
has been living the life of a retired
officer quietly engaged in research
work on the important problem of re-
constructing the Mexican army. Now
all is changed. The Reyes house, at
Neuilly-Sur-Seine, on the borders OF
the Bots de Boulogne, is the center of
| intense activity. Men are coming and
going and whispered conferences are
continually under way. AS thousands
of Sunday strollers were slipping bev-
erages in the cafes nearby, General
Reyes, eager and young again, sat in
his study surrounded by a heap of
documents, bent over his desk arrang-
ing and discussing plans for his new
and what he considers his gretest mis-
sion.
81 am going home to help my coun-
try" he said. after all, my military
mission in Europe is terminated.
am only too happy to return to try to
end the present crisis am going back
to help President Diaz and the Mexi-
can people"
"Diaz is a grand man." he continued.
"a grand statesman, who loves his peo-
pie. He is ready to make any sacrifice
to save Mexico, but do not believe
he will resign the presidency.
MY plans are scarcely formulated,
but ! think the leaders of the revolu-
| ton will consent to an armistice pend
ing discussion of the questions on
which Their seek to reform. This civil
strife must be settled on the broad
question of the honor and salvation of
the country. Yet the army must be
strengthened to stamp out the guerilla
warfare which is liable to continue at
various points,
"Will you be candidate for office
on your return" was asked, and the
general responded:
81 do not expect to be a candidate
The combination in which figure has
not yet been arranged, but I may be
secretary of war"
General Reyes expressed the hope
that the United States would adhere
to the decision not to intervene. 'In
my opinion. he said" that will not
be necessary. If the United States in
tervenes it must be expected that the
Mexicans, forgetting their internal
quarrels, would unite with the com
mon aim of crushing the invaders, just
as they did against the French"
During the conversation General
Reyes alluded to what he termed the
"absurdity of the legend" that the
Mexican government had a private ar
rangement with Japan hostile to the
United States. Even slight eXamina-
ton of the situation between the Unit
ed States and japan, he added, would
suggest that the United States were
menaced by Japan, the natural ally OF
the United States would be Mexico.
He would suppose that the United
States government would consider
Mexico as having the same interest as
the United States in respect to a non
American antagonist. For this reason
he thought the United States and
| Mexico should re allies.
General Reyes returned here yester-
dayfrom brief visit to Madrid. He
probably will embar'g for New York at
liverpool.
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