Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-05-27
PorfiriO Diaz Safe Aboard Ham
burg-American Liner Bound
for EurOpei viii Make His
Home at Madrid,
SECRECY SHROUDS
FLIGHT FROM CAPITAL
Borrowed Automobile Conveys
Party to Special Train at 2
A, Mu and Party Makes Trip
to Vera Cruz in Safety.


lBy Morning journal Special Leased wireI
Mexico City, May 26.-Porfirio Diaz
to whom during thirty years all Mex
leo has paid Difference, secretly left
the capital at o'clock this morning.
only few friends, whom he trusted,
followed him to the station. He was
bound for Vera Cruz to take ship tor
Spain.
In the distance he could hear the
voice of enthusiastic celebrators who
were acclaiming the new president,
Francisco Leon de La Barra, and
shouting Viva Madero." SO CAREFUL
ly were the arrangements made for
his departure that details could not
be confirmed until this afternoon.
Secrecy was due less to apprehension
of a popular outburst than to 1e-
sire that he reach Vera Cruz without
the fact being known to maurading
bands along the route.
Travel between here and the seaport
usually is over the Mexican railway
standard gauge line with modern
equipment. Rails along this route.
however, frequently have been remov-
ed of late by bandits who were de-
termined that Diaz, for reasons best
known to themselves, should not. leave
the capital. They are reported to
have harbored the idea that Diaz
would follow the precedent of other
Latin american presidents and carry
the national funds with him.
There is another railroad to the
coast, narrow gauge affair owned
by the government. Taking 1t fol
granted that Diaz would take tho
more luxurious route the bandits have
not molested it. For this reason the
narrow gauge line was chosen by the
former president for his trip. The
general should have reached Vera
cruz during the afternoon, but wheth-
er he has done so is not generally
known. Newspaper correspondents at
Vera Cruz long since gave up attempts
to transmit Information over the fed-
eral telegraph lines when their infor-
nation had to do with news which the
government wished TO remain unpub-
lished. Presumably de La Rarra and
the higher government officials have
been informed, but their lips are seal
ed. Even Americans high in authority
with the road. have been impressed
with the necessity for maintaining
silence.
General Diaz was still feeble from
his illness and far from being well
man when he left his home.
A more dreary leave-taking could
scarcely be imagined. Rain had fall
len earlier in the night and by the
time the former president left his
house the air was chilly He was
closely muffled and to aid in the dis
guise, a borrowed automobile was
used The route to San Lazaro sta
ton had been mapped out over unfre-
quented streets, By a prearrangement
at the last moment, police were scat
tered along the line. At certain points
the close friends of the former chief
executive, including those who are TO
accompany him across the Atlantic,
fell in behind his limousine.
Three trains were used, the first act
ing as pilot. The Diaz special fol-
lowed and some time later third
train occupied by a detachment OF
the Twenty-fifth infantry set out. The
cars of the special were occupied as
follows:
First car, General and Mrs, Diaz,
Mrs. Romero Rubion de Teresa
Colonel Porfirio Diaz. a son, Lieu
tenant Lorenzo Elzaga and the fami-
lies.
Second car-General Fernando Con
zales, Manuel Gonzales, Colonel Santa
Cruz, Major Espinosa Rondero.
Third car-Francisco S. Garcia, lg-
nacio dc La Garlta, and a kitchen
crew.
The trains ran without orders to
prevent rebels along the line picking
up news from the wires.
Just when or on what ship General
Diaz will sail is a matter of conle"-
ture. The French ship Espane was
due to leave Vera Cruz yesterday
but may have been held at the dis
posal of the party from Mexico City.
Spanish liner, the Manuel Calvo. is
scheduled to weigh anchor tomorrow,
sailing via Havana to Barcelona.
German ship. on which the Diaz party
recently reserved staterooms, sails
next Wednesday. The reservations
nave not been cancelled.
General Dias VIII undoubtedly make
MS home In Spain, probably at Mad
rid During the recent centennial.
King Alfonso conferred a title upon
MIN and made him an honorary gen
eral of the Spanish army. Sertra
uiaz was made a lady in waiting TO
The Spanish queen. General Dlaz