The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
Belief in Washington That
He is Planning to Fight
Pres. CarranZa
LEFT THIS COUNTRY
BY WAY OF HAVANA
Fhe State of oaxaca Has Never Ac-
copied Carranza's Rule, and It Is
Expected That Diaz Will Inaugurate
His Movement There.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. - Con.
irmation of reports that Gen. Felix
)iaz had left the United States for
dexico to start a new revolution was
eceived yesterday at the department
IF justice from several different quar-
erS.
Gen. Diaz left New Orleans Friday
or Havana, where several Mexicans
whose names have been associated
Nth his in reports of a revolutionary
lovement were understood to be
waiting him. TeOdoro Dehesa, a for
ner governor of Vera Cruz, and Gen
2ral Aureliano Banquet, war minis
er under Huerta, were reported to be
mong them.
Although Diaz eluded the federal
gents detailed to watch him, depart
nent of justice officials said last night
hat since no evidence warranting his
rrest had been found and as he left
he country, according to reports, as
private citizen of Mexico and not as
eader of any organized revolutionary
movement, nothing probably could
ave been done to detain him.
Gen. Diaz, nephew of the former
lexican president of that name. has
cen absent from Mexico since Huerta.
vhom he helped establish in power.
ent him abroad on a diplomatic mis-
ion. Most of this time he has spent
the United States and, although he
as suspected of being connected with
he revolutionary plot for which Huer-
4 and several others were indicted.
direct evidence against him ever
eveloped. Oaxaca, where Diaz is ex-
ected to launch his movement. is the
My state that has held aloof dur
ng the fighting of the last two years.
ed by state officials the people de-
AIRED their independence of all fac
'ons and Carranza and other leaders
we're told that the state would be glad
resume its place in the union
whenever any one demonstrated that
lie had restored stable central gov
ernment.
After Carranza s recognition by the
orelgn governments he chose not to
)arley with the people of Oaxaca,
owever, demanding that they accept
rs government Uneonditi0nally To en-
orce this demand military expeditions
'ow are being directed against the
tate and the state S army is said to
preparing to resist 1t is toward
his nucleus of organized resistance
hat Diaz is said to be moving, ac-
ompanied by Lee Christmas, an Ameri-
an widely known throughout Central
Nmerica because of his participation
n revolutionary enterprises
With the Oaxaca forces as a basis.
is estimated that Diaz might mar
hal nearly $4,000 men, but they would
)e poorly equipped and almost without
artillery. The new movement is not
regarded by officials in Washington
IS seriously menacing Carranza s gov
hrnment because they doubt Diaz s
lbility to establish himself as a popu-
AZ leader or to obtain sufficient funds.
They admit, however, that an organ
zed revolution among the hills of
outhern Mexico, where a small band
night hold out against vastly superior
'orees, would further complicate the
tlready complex situation confronting
he de facto president.
Although Carranza adherents pro
oss to see in the presence at New
York of Francisco de la Barra, once
Mexican ambassador at Washington,
he working out of the financial end of
Diaz S plans, there has been no evil
1ence that De la Barra has obtained
any financial backing in the usual
money sources of this country.