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Show TRY TO SAVE I DIAZ'S LIFE I Rebel Leader Assumes M All Responsibility For M the Revolt M Mexico City, Oct 26. Felix Diaz, H captured leader ot an abortive rebel- H Hon against the Madero government H of Mexico, assumed all responsibility for the uprising in a statement mado fM at his trial by court-martial at Vera M Efforts to sac Diaz' life are being H continued by men of high standing In Mexico. Tho supreme court today H instructed the judge at Vera Cruz to insist upon the suspension of the sen- H tence pronounced by the court-martial M on Diaz M Eighteen prisoners faced the court- M martial at Vera Cruz, which begad Hb session yesterday cveuieng, with M General Davila presiding. H Felix Diaz sat in the center of the H group and appeared entirely compos- H ed, according to a special dispatch M received here toda. In his declara- IH tlons to the court he said. il "I am the only one responsible for IH the movement I have known Colo- IH nel Jose Diaz Ordaz for many years M and I won him over to my side." Tho H other officers did not oven know jH the place to which they were being IH taken. I had no accomplice since JH thcro was no time to in?.ke prepara- M tlons for my movement." H Of the twenty-four prisoners like- iH ly to suffer death for their share In H the rebellion, thirteen are commls- M sloncd officers and the others ser- IH gcants. When not In court Diaz is H detained in tho municipal palace at H Vera Cruz President Madero re- H fused to accede to the demand of the senate that he should send cabinet IH ministers to mako a report regarding H tho rebellion at Vera Cruz and the H mll.liary trial of Genera Diaz Tn jH his" replv to the senate, which was H delvered after midnight. he advised H the senators to send "a committee to H obtain the information they desired H Tho senate afterward adjourned JH without taking any action JH Reports reaching here from vari- 1 ous parts of the country say that tho H adherents of Zapata and Orozco con- JM tinue to dispay activity. H |