Young Diaz Raises His Flag Of Revolt.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 17, 1912:
Starts Rising Against Madero by Entering Vera Cruz City — Seizes Arsenal.
ELATION IN MEXICO CITY
Fighting in Vera Cruz Imminent Between Opposing Forces — 3,000 Troops to Attack New Rebel Chief.
    MEXICO CITY, Oct. 16.— Gen. Felix Diaz, nephew of Gen. Porfirio Diaz, the deposed President of Mexico, raised the banner of rebellion at Vera Cruz to-day. He entered, the city with 500 men and seized the arsenal and garrison. Col. Diaz Ordaz was in command of the garrison, which comprised that number of the Twenty-first Infantry and one six-gun battery. Gen. Diaz then placed men in charge of the two gunboats, Tampico and Bravo, lying in the harbor.
    The news of the rising created excitement here, although there were no street demonstrations. Mexicans generally appeared elated at the new developments. According to the reports Gen. Diaz found many adherents when he entered the city, including some of the troops, but the government has been informed that the Nineteenth Infantry remains loyal, as well as the artillery. Col. Gutierrez, commanding the loyal troops, notified the government that he will resist.
    The two opposing forces are now in the City of Vera Cruz, and street fighting is imminent. President Madero has ordered the mobilization of 3,000 regulars to proceed against Gen. Diaz. The arrest of alleged partisans of Diaz in Mexico City is expected momentarily.
    The government has instructed the railroads into Vera Cruz to withdraw all equipment — the Mexican to Orizaba, the Inter-Oceanic to Jalapa, and the Vera Cruz-Pacific to Tierra Blanca.
    Believing that a great portion of the army remains loyal, President Madero, through the War Department, has also ordered every available soldier in the service, both regular and irregular, into the lines which are being drawn about Vera Cruz in an effort to crush, with the least possible delay, the new rebellion begun by Gen. Diaz.
    From Santa Ducretia, on the Tehuantepec Isthmus, Gen. Zozaya has been ordered to move to the north, and even from the northern part of the republic, where remnants of Orozco's army are still raiding in large bands, Gen. Blanquet has been summoned to the capital with the greater part of his forces to join the campaign against Diaz, whom the Government regards as a greater menace than any other revolutionist.