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Show GENERAL DIAZ ! GOING ABROAD Gives Reasons in Public Slate-j ment Appreciates American Amer-ican Treatment. FOLLOWERS ARRESTED 1 Fate of Member of Japan Spe-CMl Spe-CMl Mission Causes General Concern. Havana Nov 4 -General Felii Hi az, fugitive from Mexico, arrived here last night on the steamer Ksperanzii, to which he had been transferred from the United States battleship Michigan Michi-gan off the Mexican cwanf General Diaz gavo out the follow Ing statement "To the Mexican people When I left the country to fulfill the mission entrusted to tue towards the Japan- I ese government constitutional ordei j prevailed This legal situation was I maintained until the date on which, by Instructions sent td Paris. I was relieved of my charge and left at liberty to fulfill the obligation vol-untArilv vol-untArilv contracted by me with ray followers and friends. "True to my promise I returned to my country without losing time and during my homeward journey the dissolution dis-solution of congress and the arrest of a majority of the people's representatives representa-tives were brought about by executive execu-tive order which unfortunately dlsrup ted the constitutional condition which prevailed when I left. Before such a terrible situation the sole purpose which guided me was to remain in the Country during the time decupled by the presidential election, thereby fui filling b my presence the require tnnts of the law governing election. My purpose being accomplished and as I did not wish to be Involved In the anti-constitutional proceedings which are certain to develop in Mex1 co, I am compelled to leave the cctin try f am going abroad (There I will remain for some time and I will adjust my future action to condition:! as I observe them " Appreciates American Treatment. General Diaz, expressed great appre elation at the treatment accorded bin by Admiral Fletcher. He appeared In good health and displayed much in terest in the fate of members of tho special Mexican mission to Japan who were taken back fo Mexico on the training ship Rargosa. He visited tonight Colonel Del Rio who had been I attached to the mission but who was permitted to remain In Havana because be-cause of ill health In speaking of his experience;; In Vera Cruz, General Diaz said thai tblrty-seven of the forty of his followers follow-ers who had registered at the hotel where he had apartments In Vera Cruz, had been placed under arrcr V the federal authorities. Hp declared he was afraid of falliug Into the hands of Huerta so marie his escape from the hotel by sliding down a rope from a window, after which a few friends with drawn revolvers conducted him to the launch which took him to H13 LT. S. S Wheeling from which he was transferred to the Louisiana and later to the Michigan Jose Bonales Sandoal, Cecille L Ocen and Alexander J. Williams, Am erican newspapermen, who had accompanied ac-companied Diaz In his flight aboard the warship were passengers on the Esperanza Lieutenant Colonel Katz-utsugu Katz-utsugu military attache of the lap-anese lap-anese embassy at Washington, who has been In Mexico on a diplomatic mission also was a passenger Ho Is on his ay back to Washington |