Show dIh ann BD lIft HIDES ll IN PALACE l TROOPS IN At FEARS REBELS WITHOUT AND WITHIN CITY CY Mexican President Prepares to toI toMake toMake I Make Desperate Defense I Against Expected Attack Mounted Police Patrol City DIAZ REVOLT GAINING MOMENTUM RAPIDLY Federal Troops in Many Places j Join Revolutionary evolutionary Standard Stan Stan- J dard Decisive dard-Decisive Decisive Battle at B 1 Vera Cruz Expected Today 1 f r CITY ITY OF MEXICO MECO Oct Oot 19 The The j situation so far as the government govern govern- Jc ment is concerned has grown worse G within the past twenty-four twenty hours The sentiment for Diaz is showing unexpected unexpected unexpected uns un un- un- un s expected strength both with the people people peo pea and in the army I Federal troops are hastening into I the city from all directions and active preparations are arc making for a defense of the city from the tho attack of rebel troops from without and within L Squads of mounted police patrol the city r All An railroad communication with Uh 1 Vera Cruz and the east and south Is i Jj 4 cutt off oCt I Federal I troops are being sent south l c b by President Madero with instructions t to 0 advance M on the forces of ot Gen Felix Diaz Dia nephew of former President Diaz laz who hat has by the tho latest reports extended his conquest conquest- beyond beyond tho port ot Vera Cruz until now It Includes much of ot th the eastern and southeastern part of ot Mexico xico Two thousand federal federal federal fed fed- eral troops will vIll attack Vera Cruz ruz tonight tonight to- to night or on Sunday It Is reported t Madero S Secluded Madero keeps on saying th that t nothing nothing noth noth- In ing but death can relieve him from I the presidency Ho He has shut himself In the presidential palace of tepee tepec The federal troops have mutinied In Inmany Inmany Inmany many places ac according to cipher re report report re- re port Jort but In Mexico City the they have not as yet et given any sign of revolt A force Corce Is reported to be massIng massy mass- mass y in lug Ing- at Tree Tres Marias Marlas preparatory to toi marching north The In the state of ot Morelos have been active since sinceL i L the federal government go withdrew its j own forces from that state The port of or Tuxpan near Vera Cruz was war taken token yesterday b by revolting federal federal federal fed- fed eral troops on garrison there and the they r I turned the he place over to Diaz who has bas 1 Continued on Pago Page 7 7 Column 1 J J f p MADERO HIDES AND ki IS MASSING TROOPS Mexican Pr President Prepares to Resist Expected Attack on Capital i i i 9 Continued from Pago Page 1 taken charge of or the custom house e there a as well weIl as os at Vera Cruz Colonel Zozaya who was as ordered to togo go against Diaz is reported to have r. r mutinied with his entire command and it Is said he has captured tho the town 4 J of or Tierra Blanca with tho the Thirtieth federal battalion The Thc o only ly gunboat at Vera Cruz still sUil loyal to Madero is the Monterey o Th The Theother f other gunboats now in control of or Diaz Daz have ha their cannon trained on her i Loyal nl n Officer Slain I Commodore Azueta comman commanding the tho I I Monterey was killed this morning when he tried to escape In a. a launch there states so a a. code dispatch from I Maderos Madero's secret police are aro active and many arrests arc are aro being made of oC persons persons per per- sons suspected of ot being involved In one or more of at the network of oC plots ag against the present regime t Among those said to have ha been taken Into custody custod on suspicion is EnrIque Enrique En En- rique Fernando Castello Costello a 3 son son of ot the minister of or Justice under the former president of Mexico Gen Diaz Ho lIo was arre arrested ted it is said last night when his city residence was raided b by secret police and many letters and documents documents doc doe were wore taken away for tor tho the Inspection Inspection in inspection In- In of ot government agents Another of ot t the e suspects arrested hero here in Mexico City is a nephew of ot the wife wiCe of at Gen Diaz now nov In exile in Europe It is IH said some papers seized b by the secret service spies at the residence of Castello afforded ground for tor s suspecting suspecting sus sus- s- s Garcia Granados who was minister ter of the interior under Dr De Do DeLa DoLa La To Berra Barra Senor Granados meantime has as left the capital and his friends say ay he be may have Joined Gen Felix Felb Diaz who has proclaimed President Madero A tyrant t lne The morning papers are filled with contradictory reports of or the tho extent and progress of ot the Diaz revolution The Nueva Era a 3 government organ published pub- pub I a a. dispatch which says sas that the Diaz troops at Vera Yera Cruz have killed 1 their commander ler forcing General Diaz vessel Inthe in inthe inthe himself to flee to a a. foreign the harbor harboT for tor protection The most reliable news Is apparently that Vera I Cruz is quiet but that fighting Is Imminent rhe The strength of Diaz Dia according according- to ton reliable re- re n n. general consensus of ot apparently 1 liable IHa-ble reports is Increasing rapidly and unless soon checked there Is no telling where it will end I Gen Juan is to have command command com corn mand it Is announced of ot the campaign against Diaz President Madero adero still stillI professes confidence in tn his ability to toI I outlast the trouble General Huerta has declined to take I r Ithe the field against General Diaz Daz pleadIng pleading plead plead- ing physical disability I |