DIAZ RESIGNS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1138, 27 May 1911, Page 5

DIAZ RESIGNS.

MEXICAN REBELS VICTORIOUS. MOB RULE FOLLOWS RIOT IN CAPITAL. MADERO'S THREATS SUCCEED. By TelcEraph-Prcss Association-CopyriEht (Rec. May 27, 0.10 a.m.) Mexico City, May 26. General Diaz lias at last yielded to the demands of the insurgents, and resigned tho Presidency. . . Senor Ramon Corral, the Vice-Presi-dent, who has been tho general s righthand man for many years, has. also resigned. MEXICO CITY IN REVOLT. CRISIS IN NEGOTIATIONS. Mexico City, May 25 The peace negotiations have failed, and General Madero, tho insurgent leader, has given orders for the resumption of the war. A riot started last njght on the circulation of a report that President Diaz did not intend to resign. This roused the anger of the populace, and a mob, shouting "Long Live Madero! assembled in tho main streets or the Police and troops charged the crowd, killing seven persons and wounding many others. . ■ Tho Government forces were unable to suppress the disturbances, and the city is now in the hands of the mob. President Diaz is sick. He is suffering from fever. GENERAL DIAZ'S HEALTH. According to information gathered by tho American War Department, the "insurrectos" in arms in Mexico last month numbered 18,000, against whom the Federals have an army in the field of 23,001). These forces arc scattered in twenty-one of the twenty-seven States and provinces of Mexico. Writing of President Diaz's health, a Mexican correspondent of tho "Manchester Guardian" said recently:—"ln Oaxaca, the President's State—so says an assured authority—the natives always reach a hundred years of age. Don Benito Juarez died before that age, but the Archbishop (a gentleman called Gillow, of Irish origin) is very aged and very active, and Diaz at the age of 81 is bearing all the burden of this country on his shoulders. Not long ago h6 told a friend of his, a friend of more than sixty years standing, that ho would livo to be 92. This was in .a conversation that took place beforo the fighting of theso last few months, tfnd Diaz said that ho looked forward to iu his present office. At this moment it is qeito impossible for him to leave; tho pity is that he altered himself to stop here after tho Centenary celebrations of last autumn. The anxieties that he has had rinco th«n to undergo have not apparently made inroads on his health. ' Ho is rather "deaf, but otherwise one does not.noticoany symptoms of •decay. His walk is as elastie as it always has been, and his eye remains as humorous. From time to tinie, I am told (though here it is not mentioned), he has had a fainting fit. But his will-power is onormons." . ■ ■