Diaz Trip A Double Ruse.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 19, 1913:
Gets Him Out of Huerta's Way and Hints at Alliance.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, July 18.— The decision of Provisional President Huerta of Mexico to dispatch Gen. Felix Diaz on a. mission to Japan seems to occasion no worry in well-informed Mexican circles here. Diaz is being sent to Tokio ostensibly to return the visit of Marquis Inouye on the occasion of the celebration of the Mexican independence in September, 1910. Those in a position to have a pretty accurate line on the Mexican situation asserted to-night that Diaz was being exiled by President Huerta.
    The theory was advanced in quarters not so well informed that Diaz was sent to Japan to arrange alliances with the Mikado against the United States. This theory was ridiculed in usually well-informed circles, though it was explained that it was quite natural to suspect it might be the real purpose of the Diaz mission.
    Huerta, it was asserted, arranged to send Diaz to Japan probably to create the impression that Diaz was going on a special mission to arrange some sort of an alliance, and in doing so would not only be exiling Diaz, but profiting by the distraction of attention among those who might jump to the conclusion that some Huerta-Mikado agreement was being arranged against the United States.