GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1916, Page 5

GERMANY

THE KAISER. CRITICALLY ILL. AMERICAN DOCTOR'S DIAGNOSIS. STATE RULERS CALLED TO BERLIN. ' New York, Jan. 10. A Paris cable says that Le Temps learns from Madrirl that the rulers of the German States aro being called to Berlin. There is fear that the Crown Prince is about to assume governing power. Tile rumors that tile Kaiser is critically ill have been accepted by the German Embassy as true. A Baltimore message states that Dr. 'West, an American specialist in radium cure and head of the great Berlin cancer clinic, writing to friends, said that two years ago the Kaiser's physicians deemed that the use of the knife was necessary, but an operation was not performed. One doctor, who was called in a consultation capacity, expressed the belief that the trouble was an ulcer, whicl: had been burned out. This was not entirely the. case, ancl it Was only R matter of time when it would reappear. As a final recourse it might he necessary to remove the larynx and insert two tubes to admit breath and food. In some eases it might lie practical to cut half the larynx away, but the present danger was of blood poisoning and pneumonia through air reaching the lung flaps cold. If the larynx were only partially cut there was a, possibility of having the vocal cords as well as the speech. The doctor is of opinion that tile Kaiser is so badiy afflicted and-the growth lias spread in such a way that it may be necessary to remove the" whole larvnx.