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Show FELIX DIAZ COMES TO UNITED STATES NEW YORK, Fob. 21. Felix Diaz, who helped bring about tho downfall of Madero, but later had to floo from Mexico Mex-ico for hiH life, arrived today from Havana. Ho doclarod that ho had no intention of allying himself with Car-' ranza and Villa. Friends who accompany accom-pany him in his exile said ho loft Havana Ha-vana bocauso ho feared tho hostility of tho Huortistas, who had mado ono attempt at-tempt to kill him since he fled from Vera Cruz. "I come to visit friends," said General Gen-eral Diaz. "I don't know how long 1 Bhall stay. No, I havo no plans to go to Washington nnd I have not arranged to moot any omiasary from tho revolutionists revolu-tionists or any other Mexicans, ox-cent ox-cent my own porsonal friends." There was no delegation to moot him when he stopped off tho steamer Monro Castlo. A fifteen-year-old boy, son ot A. Miranda, a relative of Mrs. Diaz, took him in charge and as soon as the customs officers and passed his baggage bag-gage ho and Mb wife wont to Mr. Miranda Mi-randa 'b apartments at 571 West 139th street, whero he will make his home during his stay in Now York. With General Diaz wore his wifo and four countrymon who, like him, fled from Vera Cruz. Awaits Opportunity. Diaz talkod moro frcoly when he reached his friend's apartment. "1 am not out of political lifo," ho said. "I am only waiting for an opportunity. "Aa things aro now it will bo a long time before any of the forces in tho field can gain supremacj-. I see little hope for peace. "The Unitod States should think carefully before interfering in Mexico. Mex-ico. To illustrate what inter'v'ention would mean to tho Mexicans, suppose for example England should land troops in the United States. Would that mean war? If President Wilson had helped Huerta at the start tho problem would have been solved. "If the constitutionalists are victorious victo-rious thero would still bo no assurance that outlawry in Mexico would ond. If Huerta triumphs ho would only get a temporary peace. Another disturbance would follow within a short time. Has Little Hope. "I am not personalty interested in either side. If I knew what the solution so-lution was T would try to put it into effect; but I don't know. My only ambition is that Mexico Should havo peace." Tho goneral said that thoro was absolutely abso-lutely no chance that his uncle, Por-firio Por-firio Diaz, would ever return to Mexico Mex-ico as its ruler. Diaz said ho had no immediate fears for his personal safety. "But after what happened in Havana," he said, "it is onty natui-al that I should take some precautions.'' "General Diaz," said Mr. Del Vilas, his secretar', "does not approvo of the methods of Carranzn and Villa. It is useless to ask him now what ho is going to do, because he doesn't know 3-et. He wants to talk things over with his friends and ho feels safer here than in Havana, where there were constant rumors of attempts to assassinate him." Mrs. Diaz, a pretty, black-eyed woman, wom-an, kept close to hor husband's elbow, laughing and chatting with the other membors of the part3. |