Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 30, 11 January 1916, Page 5

Germany

7H E S£ A USER’S HEALTH. i ' . SERIOUSiMESS qF THE POSITION. RUMORS OF GROWN PRINCE'S L JC- tSSI JN. (Umtko Tkksh Association, i Received 8.15 a.m.) New fork, January 10. A Paris cable says Le Temps learns from .Madrid that the rulers of the German Slates, who are being called to Berlin, fear that the Crown Prince is about to assume the governing power. The rumors that the Kaiser is critically ill have been accepted by the Gorman Embassy as true.

I A Baltimore message state's that Dr*. I West, an American specialist in the iradium cure, and head of the great Berlin cancer clinic, writing to friends, 'says that two years ago the Kaiser’s [ physicians deemed the knife necessary, but the operation was not performed. One doctor called a consultation of the capacity, and expressed the belief that the trouble was an ulcer, which had been burned out. This was not entirely the case, and it was only a matter of time when it would reappear. As a final recourse it might be necessary to remove the larynx and insert two tubes to admit breath and iood. In some cases it might he practical to cut half the larynx away, but the present danger was blood-poisoning and pneumonia through air reaching the lung flaps.. If only partially cut, there was the possibility of saving the vocal cords as well as the speech. The doctor opines that the Kaiser is so badly aflicted and the growth has spread in such a way that it may be necessary to remove the whole larynx.