The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-05-06
DIAZ SILENT; war NEAR AGAIN
no RESIGNATION PLEDGE. THEN
TRICE VIII END TO-DAY.
MaderO stands Pat Federal Peace Envoy
scoitis IN vain Peace Farley HATED
Yesterday Rebels Fairly Ovcrrun
Northern Mexico Hard Fighting.

isll luTulne 10 tlS
army. everybody is asking fo-niRm'
, What will happen when tho "rm'S''ce
expires AT noon Saturday,
| Madero says the armistice may not d"
extended while preparations we're mace
during the night and early th'' morning
| for the resumption of IN" p"ac" confer
.nce IL being presumed that something
would he received ea"lv IN the day on"
way or the Other, from Fresideh' Diah
on the question of his resignation. all
preparations we're for naught ana hhere
WAS no meeting
Minutes wore into hours and hours into
the day and no reply caine IRON me
President of Mexico. Last night the IN
s,nrscto peace commissioners announced
fatty thai the least they would take from
Diaz was public announcement, mat ne
, intended TO retire on u certain date. II
I he would make this declaration they
! would not force him to agr"o To resigna-
tion ~ ore OF the provisions OF the peace
treaty. This was wired 10 the President
! To-day Judge Francisco Carbaial. chair
man of the Mexican commission. denied
that ne had SEM the message to Dia2
! Ho said he did not come here 10 discuss
Presidential rerig..atlons. but pea'".
Oscar BranifI. y menbor of the fcdera
Peace Commission. said the message had
been sent ard thI: he did not believ"
President Dial would consider II or reply
to il, In the ins,Irrecto camp Francisco
l. Madero, the provisional President
declined to say what would be done il
no reply was received: but he declared
positively that IF there are no assur-
ances of a peace agreement at noon
Saturday the armistice VIII not be ex-
| tended
lnasmuch as Vasauez Gomez is the
insurrec,o peace commissioner and has
presented the iltimatum that there will
bc no further negotiations until Dial
saws something about his resignation
there are now fears of resumption
host,li,ies Gomez has been looked upor
all the time ~ the bird of peace" the
man who did more than any other persoi
except tn. senior Madero to hold OF th'
attack on Juarel. If he agrees that
pea,o j. not possible those who har'
watched the situation look for nothing
short of a renewal .ofithe war.
A. showing the seriousness Of th
situation Oscar Braniff. one of the al
vi-ory peace commissioners for tn
F,deralS. issued a statement to-day il
which he seeks an opportunity to in
f,u.nce Madero for peace by showing
how 10 will be held responsible for tn
losses that must come out of u cont inua
,iop of the war. He admits in the state
ment that he told Madero that Diaz wa
willing to retire and says that the new
Cabinet is sufficient assurance to Nader
and his army that reforms will he carries
OF, in Mexico Braniff also insinuate
that Gomez and others are wrongly in
iiuencing Madero. The statement end
with the following declarations:
IF on he contrary he. Madero. force
ne right to a finish under the very wea
plea that Gen Diaz's presence preclude
| ha necessary guarantees and will rende
st.ri,. the work of the revolution. i
spite of the Government assurance
/. and manifest good faith. and If he allow
every so-called intellectual leader an
comfort able patriot Ton safe America
soib 10 drag him and his brave follower
10 fight to finish and keep on KILN
and being killed until verything is deaf
aud despair. and if he permits their de
mands 10 come To him coupled with IN
T disciplinad stat emantS such as we Observ
o-day in ne press a. made by Or, Nasque
, Come. who ha, changed his politict
= Il tGnNltllbtlS 1''lI IltIt- Nlttll1 Int la
two wears and declared himself rev,
. lutionist only on. and onehalf montf
: ago. that j. to say. when the revolutio
r WAS pract iCally cOmll. trd and its prime
pies triumphant. and Mr.. Carranza
|, whose outSpok"n doctrine IL War
!, war. and If American interventionc ONE
let il come" two gentlemen patriots WI
declared yesterday 10 Mr.. Madero thu
they would not stand by his peace 8gre,
mant if il did not contain Gen. Diaz
resignation if MIR. Madero allows su,
things To prevail, then things ierrib
I indeed, are awaiting our distract.
|. country, and our fitur" history reserve
y a terrible arraignmen' to all those WI
bred and developed in our midst II
monster of revolution and then let
loose and uncontrolled to destroy o,
country and the people whose moral SUI
port of IN. principles involved permit,s
:. he revolution 10 spread and succeed
Tn. usual celebration Of Cinco de May
the anniversary of the battle of Pueblo
{ of which Portirio DiaZ was the hero, We
a not held in Jaurez to-day. In the insu
>, recto camp there We're much celebratir
and many speeches The insurrectos g,
tolled IaragoA AZ the hero OF Pueb
;. and DaZ was left out.
= No confirmation was received heI
= to-day of the report from San Ant on
!. that Torreon has fallen. and 1t Ia n,
IL generally credited as even the ins,irrectt
II saw me town was 700 strongly Harr1SOne
h aud fortified Advioes from Torreon tw
r. DAYS old say that Mapimi and Durane
are in rebel hands. but mention no dang
IS To Torreon AT that time Railroads al
% cut all around Torreon The town has
l. three weeks supply OF groceries on han
l. but there is no prospect Of the arrival
10 several carloads of merchandise whic
d should have reached here before the tieu
l. which IL now complete.
The Mexican Consul here has advic
that Mazatlan is still in Federal hand
n. Yesterday officials in Mexico city said
was in rebel hands The day previou
rhe Federals claimed il, Now the repo
v is that Mexican warships in the harb
IA have run the rebels back into the moul
" tains with their heavy gun fire.
e The rebels who were recently defeats
Is at Aqua Prieta are now concentrate
q in the Ajo Mountains west of Canaan,
- ready to attack NogaIes if peace fails.
MONTEREY, Mexico, MAY 5,-Capt Lu
~ Rivera of the Eighth Regiment of Caval
h has returned to Monterey with the detac
ment which was sent TO San Pedro Co