Ex-President Diaz Watching.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 23, 1912:
Evades a Question About a Possible Return to Mexico.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    PARIS, Oct. 22.— Ex-President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico, when questioned by The New York Times correspondent to-day about the report current in New York yesterday that he was about to go back to Mexico, gave the following signed statement:
    "I have no idea how the report originated, for, whatever my thoughts or intentions, I never communicate them to anybody.      DIAZ."
    Nothing is known here about the ex-President's alleged intention to leave Paris. Everything, in fact, tends to show the contrary. Only last Sunday the ex-President asked the manager of the Astoria whether he could rent a first-floor apartment for a whole year.
    At the same time Diaz's friends say that he is following the events in Mexico with the keenest interest. Immediately after the first news of the movement reached him he telegraphed to his confidential secretary, Rafael Chousal, who left Biarritz at once and is now staying with the ex-President.
    The latter stated again to-day that he had received no direct news from Mexico.