Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-03
PORF|RIO D|AZ is
CALLED TO ACTIVE
SERVICE IN ARMY
Huerta's War Department Re-
stores Former Presidents
Commission as General.
SEVEN GENERALS FLEEING
BEFORE WRATH OF VILLA
With More Than Three Thou
sand Followers They May
Cross Into U. S.

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 3.-The war
department today published an order
transferring General Portfirio Diaz
from the retired list to the active list.
The order bears date of Sept ember 20.
Publication of the order announc-
ing the restoration of former Presi-
dent Diaz to the active military list
is believed to be significant. General
Diaz, when he left Mexico for Eu-
rop.. after he was deposed by the
Madero revolutionists, declared that
he would not again return to his
country unless it was for a patriotic
motive in time of need. At that time
he apparently foresaw that Mexico
was on the eve of a great civil war
despite that Madero was apparently
chair. In the event of DiaZ's return
to Mexico now another important
phase i'm the situation would develop
inasmuch as 1t is an open question
whether the old leader, who created
peace out of chaos in the old days,
.would be a factor in ending the pres
ent strife.
JUAREZ, Mex, Dec. S.-Confident
that the seven federal generals who
evacuated Chihuahua City with their
troops intended to seek refuge in the
United States and thus be beyond
danger of being taken prisoners by
the rebels, General Francisco Villa
today sent more troops to attempt to
intercept them.
The generals, led by General Saliva
dore Mercado, whose desertion of
Chihuahua and whose statements
that he had no money to pay his
troops are regarded as a virtual
breakdown of the Huerta dictator
ship so far as the north of Mexico is
concerned, are headed for Ojinaga, on
the border.
1t is thought they will cross the
river to Preside. At Uresidio they
United States military authorities,
taken to Maria and thence to San
Antonio.
With Them Arc 1000 Regulars.
Their arrest on crossing the river
would follow as a matter of course
under ruling of Secretary of War
Garrison. With the generals are
mary subordinate officers, about 1000
Federal regular soldiers and more
han Il thousand persons of the.
Weather class of Chihuahua, who
took to flight rather than face an at
tack by the rebels.
General Pascual Orozco and General
Jose Ynez Salazar, believed to be with
| Mercado, are under Indictment re-
turned in the Federal Court in Ell
Paso, Tex, for violation of the neu-
trality law. Salazar is out on bond
but Orozco never was arrested.
Villa had little hope that his SOL
10 to oil fl0
Iederals who had left Chihuahua
several days before the fact of their
flight became known,
villa Regards 1t as Unusual.
That Mercado after handing the
portfolio of state to FREDERICK Moye,
civil government ad interim should
on behalf of himself and subordin-
ates offer to surrender and then fly
to the border was regarded by Villa
as an unusual proceeding. The only
place they will surrender will be in
the United States, said Villa, as he
sat at breakfast in his Juarez head
quarters and patted an automatic
revolver which lay among the spoons
and forks at his plate.
Carlos A. Heberlein, of Los Ange-
les, Cal, who came from Chihuahua
with the commission, said that before
the Federals left the pen was emptied
of all the political prisoners.
Everything possible was done by
General Marcado to treat citizens hui
namely" said Heberlein. Patience,
however, was worn out. The people
had been in panic for so long they
could endure it no longer All the
money had been withdrawn from the
city. The repeated defeat of the Fed
eral troops as they ventured north
and came back broken was discour-
aging There was no money to pay
the troops and everybody lost heart"