The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31
THE WORLD AT LARGE
Summary Of Important Events
All Over The Country Told
I'm Paragraphs.
PEACE in 80 DAYS
PRESIDENT DIAZ TO RETIRE
PRESIDENT TAFT EXPLAINS
MANOEUVRES.

Francisco /. Madero has issued
decree declaring the end of guerrilla
warfare and forming the insurrecto
bands into seven corps. Meantime
the fighting continues
At the same time the brother of
Francisco l. Madro, the head of the
insurrecto movement, asserted in an
interview at San Antonio that peace
would come in ninety days, as the
result of negotiations initiated joint
ly by the Maderos and Senior Liman-
tour while the latter was in New
York With this establishment of
peace it is supposed that President
Diaz will go into retirement. The
change in the Mexican Cabinet was,
Senor Madero said, the first step in
the plan then agreed on. The sub
sequent steps, he said, would be the
elimination of Senor Corral from the
Vice-Presidency' and of Senor de la
Barra from the Ministry of Foreign
Relations, and the succession of Sem
or Limantour to both posts pending
a new election. President DiaZ
would be allowed to retire graceful
ly under cover of his extreme old
age, and his prompt collapse might
be expected. Senor Madero added
that no United States troops would
be needed or permitted to enter Mex
leo to safeguard the election.
Taft Explains.
President Taft has taken Republi-
can members of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee into his conf
dence in regard to the situation in
Mexico. He has laid before them
informally the information which led
to the sending of 20,00U troops to
| the border.
Official information was received
by this Government that Mexico was
on the verge of a widespread revolu-
ton. The republic was described as
a volcano ready to erupt at any mo-
ment, throwing the country into an
archy and jeopardizing hundreds of
millions of dollars worth of Ameri-
can property and many American
! lives. Grave doubt was expressed as
to the ability of the Diaz Govern
ment to Withstand the shock.
The well known existence of a
strong, widespread anti-American
| feeling in Mexico added to the seri-
BUSINESS of these reports, and Presi-
dent Taft when they were laid before
him found himself in a position
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accept the official reports and act
quickly or ignore them and assume
responsibility for the serious results
that might follow through inactivity
He chose the former course and 6
few hours later one-quarter of the
regular army was headed toward the
Mexican frontier.
With the troops under way, the
President was Immediately confront
ed with the embarrassing situation
of not being able to take the country
into his confidence and officially dis
close the real reasons which had lee
to the military demonstration. Tt
have publicly discussed the situation
in Mexico would not only have beer
taken as an affront by the Diaz gov
ernment, but would also have operat
ed to defeat the Presidents own pur
pose by encouraging the revolution
, ary uprisings across the border. Th
Presidents lips have thus been seal
ed as to the real purpose of th
movements of troops except in so fa
as he has communicated it to his ad
visers and the members of the Sen
ate Foreign Affairs Committee.