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Show SUCCESSFUL COMIC OPERA REVOLT By one of the most curious turns of fortune's wheel, a comic opera revolt re-volt became a tremendous revolution find the man who lately was at the mercy of Madero substantially berime be-rime Madero's conqueror and the new msister of Mexico. This man is Colonel Felix Diaz, the favorite nephew of the banished dictator, i and as it now seems, a leader of Porifiro Diaz's daring and ability. A little more than three months ago Colonel Diaz raised the banner of insurrection in Vera Cruz against Madero, but was overwhelmed and captured with hardly a shot fired. Tried for treason, found guilty and condemned to death, Colonel Diaz wa3 saved only by the clemency of President Madero, who commuted the death sentence to imprisonment in the military fortress of San Juaft tie Ullva at Vera Cruz. The fact is the Diaz revolution of October was not a fizzle, and it did ZfSl not prove that Colonel Felix was a weakling or a bad leader. The uprising was badly timed . Colonel Felix Diaz is forty years old and is the son of General Felix . Diaz, a brother of the former president, who was killed in 1871 during a revolution which the Diaz faction led against President Juarez. |