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Show FORMER PRESIDENT DIAZ DEAD. Man Who Was Given Credit for Advance Ad-vance of Mexico is Called. Paris. General Porfirio Diaz, former for-mer president of Mexico, died July 2. General Diaz had been in failing health after reaching Europe in 1911, after his resignation from the presidency presi-dency of Mexico, following the successful suc-cessful Madero revolution. Two tragic circumstances marked the death of the exiled ruler. Owing to the troubled state in Mexico, it has been judged impossible to send the body home with all that ceremony which would have befitted one of the greatest figures in Mexican history, and further, Colonel Porfirio Diaz, Jr., haa tried in vain to inform his sisters Senora Ignacio de la Torre and Se-nora Se-nora Rincon Gallardo, who are now in Mexico, of the death of their father. Not less tragic, perhaps, is the fact that not one of those whom General Diaz raised up to be his assistants in governing Mexico and who prospered and grew rich in the shadow of his greatness, were with him when he died. To Diaz was given credit for the advance ad-vance of Mexico to the status of a stable, sta-ble, progressive and prosperous government, gov-ernment, although the autocratic methods he employed were widely criticized. |