Mexicans Request Diaz To Return.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 20, 1913:
Delegation Arrives at the Ex-Dictator's Place of Exile in Spain.
AEROPLANE FOR REBEL ARMY
Smuggled Across Arizona Border — To be Used to Drop Bombs on Federal Gunboat.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    PARIS, Tuesday, May 20.— The Journal's Corunna correspondent says that the steamship Ypiranga, has arrived there with a Mexican delegation aboard. The delegates visited ex-President Diaz and requested him to return to Mexico and take the reins into his hands again.

    NOGALES, Ariz., May 19.— The war aeroplane which crossed into Mexico near Naco last night was the same flying machine confiscated by United States officials two weeks ago. The machine has disappeared from a ranch between Tucson and this point. With it disappeared Reuben Hopkins, a United States Deputy Marshal of Tucson, who was left to guard the craft.
    The machine, in sections, was taken in three automobiles south to the international line and safely carried across late yesterday afternoon. With it went high-power bombs of the gravity contact type, which the insurgents expect to drop on the Federal gunboat Guerrero, which lies in Guaymas Harbor, ready to assist the garrison of the town in defending the only remaining point in the State of Sonora held by the Central Government. The flying apparatus and bombs for aerial use went south to-day on a special train. The attack upon Guaymas, to which point the defeated Federals have retired, has been postponed, it is explained, until the aeroplane arrives to offset the power of the gunboat.
    The disappearance of the aeroplane, supposedly safe in the keeping of the Federal officers, led late to-day to a search for the missing Deputy Marshal. It is asserted that he was kidnapped. The Mexican customs collector of Nogales, Sonora, passed the incident with the remark: "It cost us lots of money, but we got it."
    The aeroplane, a three-passenger, eighty horse power biplane, was held two weeks ago, when Didier Masson and his mechanic, Thomas Deane, began setting up the machine at Pike's ranch, twenty miles below Tucson. Masson and Deane escaped with some necessary parts of the machine, and it was rumored that still another aeroplane had been smuggled over the line.
    It is said that the machine which crossed last night is the second of five contracted for by the insurgents.
    José Manuel, a seventeen-year-old Mexican-American, was arrested in Nogales, Sonora, yesterday and sentenced to be shot as a spy. A conference between Prefect Calles and the American Consul to-day led to a retraction of the order. The youth signed a statement in which he confessed complicity in a plot to smuggle arms, ammunition, and petroleum into Sonora, the oil to be used in destroying bridges and probably public buildings.
    Two unidentified Mexicans, also accused of being Federal spies, were shot at sunrise to-day.

    EAGLE PASS, Texas, May 19.— Gov. Carranza, Constitutionalist leader, is preparing a message to President Wilson, notifying him that United States Consul Luther T. Ellsworth, at Piedras Negras, is persona non grata, and requesting his withdrawal. He refused to-day to discuss the reasons for his determination. Consul Ellsworth, declined to talk about the matter.
    Piedras Negras is official headquarters of the Carranzistas.
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    No protest against Consul Ellsworth had been received from Gov. Carranza to-day, but from unofficial sources it was learned that the principal complaint of the Constitutionalist leader against the Consul is that he has been friendly to the Huerta Government and its officials to the disadvantage of the revolutionists.
    "My purpose to solve the situation in Mexico by force of arms is fixed and inflexible," was the message Gov. Carranza wired to his agent here to-day in response to queries as to whether he had decided to compromise the conflict by agreeing upon Francisco Vasquez Gomez for Provisional President.
    White House officials, when informed to-day that dispatches from Mexico City interpreted Secretary Bryan's statement of last Saturday as an indorsement of Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, expressed the opinion that there never had been any proof to substantiate the charges recently made against the Ambassador.

    GALVESTON, May 19.— Nearly two-score refugees from Mexico, who have just arrived on board, the steamer Noruega, report conditions in the southern republic acute, in some instances bordering upon a state of anarchy. They boarded the steamer at Vera Cruz and Tampico.
    Among the refugees were business men and their families, employes of foreign concerns operating in the larger cities, a Methodist missionary, and three men said to have been officers of the Federal Army during the regime of the late President Madero.