The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19
Great Secrecy Maintained Along Route of Home
 Bound Diplomat
MINISTER'S RETURN
 IS OMEN OF PEACE
Thousands of Mexicans Look For- ward to Arrival of Man Whom Many Consider as Next
 President

Laredo. Tex. March 1s.--Jose Yves Li-
 mantour. fnancier, diplomat and possible
 future president of Mexico. passed
 through this city today en route to Mex
 ico City, where he may be influential +,
 bringing about peace in the republic
 MT. Limantour. his wife. son and a pri-
 vate secretary composed the party. which
 left San Antonio this morning in the
 private car Hidalgo. Immediately pre-
 ceding the Hidalgo in the train was ths private car of Vice President C.. R. Hud-
 son of the National lines of Mexico, and
 the same order was observed on tho
 Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
 During the journey south from San Au- tonic Senor Limantour refused to sea
 anybody, including newspaper men who
 boarded the train at San Antonio and
 made every endeavor to obtain an inter- view.
 Leonardo Aguilar, J. Madero Aguilar and J. Gonzales Trevilo, all members of the Madero family of Monterey. came in this morning for the purpose of inter viewing Senor Limantour. They were unsuccessful, but secured a promise of an audience as soon as the train reached Mexican soil.
 The only visitors received by MT. Li- mantour on the American side were Mex ican Consul Miguel E. Diebold and Col
 leetor of Customs James J. Haynes. while the audience granted on the Mex ican side of the river was confined to few of the army, federal and municipal officials.
 Interviews Denied To an Associated Press representative Minister Limantour's son said his father had been besieged by newspaper corre- spondents ever since he left New York, all seeking interviews, but that the min- ister had determined to give out no state ment until he reaches Mexican terri, | tory and perhaps his silence would not
 be broken before he reached Mexico City. Shortly after 3:30 D. m. the train de- parted from Nuevo Laredo for the south. 1 Leonardo aguilar, a member Of the | non-c n-combatant branch of the Madero
 family, said he knew the Maderos in 1 New York had received cable advices of | the coming from Europe of MT. Liman- | tour and that later conference had
 been held in New York. He also de- clared that teegrams had been received | by the Maderos now in Mexico, which 1 indicated there would be a change of conditions within the next three weeks l and that their enforced repatriation would end
 While at the station at Cotulla, Tex, where representatives of the Madero fam- lv boarded the Limantour train for this city, they met and talked with large
 number of Mexicans and several Ameri- cans, among whom was James Walker, the American, who acted as guide for
 Francisco l. Madero during his flight from Cotulla to Eagle Pass.
 Limantour's Coming Important A peculiar coincidence attaches 10 the return of Jose Yves Lmantour to Mexi- co. He is due in Mexico City tomorrow night March 19. That Sunday is known as Saint Joseph day in Mexico. and Saint Joseph is the patron saint of Mexico, just as the Virgin of Guadalupe is figuratively | their virgin saint. In view of the fact | that great importance is attached to the | coming of Limantour, who Is credited with a mission of conciliation, his arrival | is looked forward to as an omen of peace bv thousands of Mexicans.