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Show URGES HUERTA 10 YIELD iy Eli EX-PRESIDENT DIAZ ADVISES PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT TO RENOUNCE POWER. Former Dictator Counsels Huerta to Renounce Any Feeling of Personal Prestige and Thus Save Mexico From Calamity. Paris. General Porfirio Diaz has advised ad-vised General Vlctorlano Huerta to retlro from the presidency of Mexico. Two friends of General Diaz, each acting separately, and by authorization authoriza-tion of the ex-presldent, have sent telegrams tel-egrams to General Huerta to this affect. af-fect. In outlining his attitude General Diaz said that In the present situation situa-tion of the Mexican rpeople in relation to the United States it was not a question of -whether Huerta vts the belt man for the presidency, nor was It a question of whether the revolutionists revolu-tionists iwsr right or wrong; It was a qu63tk of patriotism. He counseled coun-seled General Hugrta to renounce any feeltaga of persenal prestige or owerA and thus save Mexico from a oalanrfty. General Diaz has met many Mexican Mexi-can fcore, friends of Huerta, friends of Matifcro and a number of his own followers, and has discussed Mexican affalM thoroughly with them. (He has bean urged t take an attitude for or afcalnat Huerta, but has always declined. de-clined. Ha declared that he authorized author-ized his message through his friends only as an appeal to Heurtas Judgment Judg-ment as to whether love of country did not require Huerta's renunciation of power in view of the increasing pressure of the United States. General Diaz said to his friends that he would have telegraphed to General Huerta himself, but he had thus far taken no direct step In Mexican Mexi-can affairs since he left the country and would prefer to convey his conviction convic-tion thvough mutual friends. |