CRISIS IN MEXICO.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1071, 9 March 1911, Page 5

CRISIS IN MEXICO.

PRESIDENT DIAZ DYING. AMERICAN FORCES MASSING. By Tok'L'raph—l'icss Association— Copylirllt Mcxico City, March 7. President Diaz is on his death-bed. United States troops are massed on the Mexican borders. ARMY AND NAVY CONCENTRATING. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. (Rec. March 9, 0.35 a.m.) New York, March 8. A division of the United States Army has been ordered to the Mexican border, under the command of General Carter. Tho Pacific Fleet is concentrating at San Diego and San Pedro, but Guantanamo, in Cuba,'\ will be the sea baM of possible operations. A White House announcement states that there will be no operations against Mexico, and that the mobilisation is merely for training purposes. General Porfirio Diaz was last reelected President of Mexico for the eighth term in succession. He is now 83 years of age, and his career, from one poin' of view, has been one long romance. Nominally Mexico is a Republic; in reality she is nothing of the sort. She possesses a. Senate and a Chamber of Deputies; there occur periodic "elections" of State representatives, that is of Governors r.nd Councils in each State of the Federation. But it is none tho less certain that for upwards of a quarter of a century theso have been mere pawns on a chessboard, nothing more; and tho player of the gams is the far-sighted ruler who lias been called by a recent visitor to Mexico "one of tho greatest men living." Diaz is an autocrat more absolute than, any Tsar .of Russia.