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Is Attacked While Walking Along Fashionable Prom enade in Havana, But the Wounds Are Not Thought to Be Fatal
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 HAVANA, Nov. 6.-FeliX Diaz was stabbed by a Mexican at 10:30 o'clock tonight. He was wounded twice, probably not fatally.
 The attack on Diaz occurred while he was walking on Malecon, a fash ionable promenade He was wound cd behind the ear and in the neck, besides receiving several blows on the head from cane. Diaz was removed to a hospital. His assailant was arrested.
 Diaz with Cecilie Ocon, fellow fugitive from Mexico, and Luis Nal ia were listening to a band concert in the Malecon when group of Mexicans among them young Mex ican, Pedro Guerrero, passed the Diaz party Diaz, it is said, made some unpleasant remarks about the follow CTS of Carranza; whereupon Guerrero went to the sea wall where the other Mexicans were seated. He informed them of Diaz' alleged insult
 The entire group came back to where Diaz and his friends were con Versing and hot words were eX- changed. Guerrero sprang at Diaz with a knife. wounding him. The two struggled for moment together when a policeman seized Guerrero by the shoulders Someone drew re- volver and fired. The bullet struck Guerrero. Diaz was taken to a hos pital where it was found his wounds were superficial Guerrero is serious Iy wounded.
 The entire party was placed under arrest.
 General Felix Diaz made his escape from Mexican soil on October 27 taking refuge on the United States gunboat Wheeling at Vera Cruz He was transferred to the Louisiana and from there to the battleship Michi- gan and later to the steamer Esper- anza which reached Havana on Monday.
 As long ago as October 15, the Cuban government was warned that a band of Mexican conspirators was planning to kill Diaz, who was then on his way from Europe to Mexico to be present at the elections in which he was a candidate.
 The Cuban government took pre- cautionary measures and Diaz was closely guarded when he landed at Havana on the homeward voyage. There were rumors of other plots against Diaz' life when it was learn ed that he was to return to Ha- vana. A late Vera Cruz dispatch reported that Diaz had left behind alleged proof that an agent of the government was on his way to Vera Cruz with orders to take DiaZ to Mexico City. dead or alive.
 General Diaz was the candidate of the Mexican national democratic par ty for president He had been sent out of the country by General Huer- ta as the head of a special Mexican mission to Japan, but returned to carry on his campaign. When he ar rived at Vera Cruz on October 22 he found the situation so threatening that he did not dare to continue to the Mexican capital. Huerta sent him an invitation to come to Mexico City and even dispatched an envoy to in duce Diaz to accept the invitation. He declined to do so. and finally made his way to hotel adjoining the American consulate, from which he escaped to a launch which carried him to the Wheeling.
 General Felix Diaz is a nephew of General Porfirio Diaz, former presi dent of the republic. One year ago he headed a revolutionary movement al Vera Cruz, which was promptly suppressed. He headed a revolt against President Madero in Mexico City last February. which ended in the overthrow of Madero and the as sumption of the presidency by Gen l eral Huerta.