The Sentinel=record., 1911-05-27
DIAz LEAVES
 IN SECRECY
OPPOSED PRESIDENT STEALS AWAY FROM MEXICAN RE-
 PUBLIC IN NIGHT
Surrounded by Few Faithful Friends He Embarks at Vera Cruz to Make Future Home
 in Spain.

Mexico City. May 26. Porfrio plaz, for whom during thirty years all Mex ico has stood at one side hat in hand stole from the capitol with great secrecy at o'clock this morn- ing. Only few devoted friends whom he dared to trust followed him to the station. He was bound for Vera cruz to take ship for Spain. In the distance eould be heard voices Of few Of inc more enthusiastic celebrants who were st'll acclaiming the new president Franciso De Leon Barra, and shout
 ing Viva Madero."
 So carefully were the arrangements or the ex presidents escape that de-
 ails could not he confirmed unrif tnis Afternoon. Secrecy was due less to apprehension of popular outburst here than to desire to reach Vera Cruz without the fact being known to marauding bands along the route.
 Travel between this city and the seaport usually is over the Mexican railroad. standard guage line with
 modern equipment. Rails along this ~oute, however. frequently have been removed of late by bandits who were determined that Diaz for reasons best
 Snown to themselves. should not
 cave the capitol. They are reported o have harbored the idea that DIaz would follow the precedent or other Latin American presidents and carry he national funds with him. There is another railroad to the
 cast. narrow guage tortnous al fair owned by the government The general should have reached Vera Cruz during the afternoon but whether he has done so is not gen. erally known. Newspaper corre==;f:<sssse.-- z ents at Vera Cruz long since gave up ilmost to transmit information over he federal lines, particularly when their information had tc do with news which the government wished to remain unpublished.
 De La Barra and the higher gov srnmental officials have been infonm- cd, but their lips are sealed on every Ietail. Even Americans high in eu- thority with the road have been inn pressed with the necessity for nam taining silence
 | Senor De La Barra, who was inau- gurated as provisional pres dent only
 oday. 1t is realized has not had beis-
 ire to bring about the reforms or
 free speechv and liberty of the press' which have been among the loudest of the triumphant instruction var cries.
 General Diaz, still weak from ms illness and far from being well man. 1 left his home at ? o'clock in the | morning. A more dreary leave taking sould scarcely be imagined. Rain had fallen earlier in the night and by tne .ime the ex-pres.dent emerged from his house November chill was in the air. He was closely untitled. and to aid in, the disguise borrowed auto i mobile was used The rnnte tn the San Ilazaro station had been mapp- ed out over unfrequented streets. BY ore arranged scAeme. at the lust mo. ment police were scattered 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 be- hind his limousine.
 l Three trains weIs used. the first acting as pilot. Sometime later third train occupied by q detachment of the Twenty fifth infantry set out after the Diaz special. The cars of the
 fugative's special were occupied as follows:
 First car. General and Mrs. Diaz.
 Mrs. Romero Rubio De Teraz. Colonel
 Porfirio Diaz son. lieutenant LOT
 enzo Elizaga and their families. l Second car. General Fernando tions
 zalez, Manuel Gonzalez, Colonel san
 ta Cruz Major Epinozay Rondero.
 Third car. Francisco s Garcia. iS |nacio De Garita. and q kitchen crew lThe train ran without orders. to pre-
 went rebe along the line tpom pick ling the news of his coming' orf tho
 wires.
 Just when the ship General niax