SERIOUS CONDITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 172, 23 July 1929, Page 7

SERIOUS CONDITION.

Dr. Mueller, German Chancellor,

Very 111.

PERITONITIS SUPERVENES

("Times" Cables.)

LONDON, July 22.

The Berlin correspondent of the "Times" says the German Chancellor, Dr. Mueller, has been stricken with an attack of inflammation of the bladder, which necessitated him undergoing an operation for the removal of gall-stones. The operation was successfully performed, but peritonitis has now supervened and the patient's condition is serious. Dr. Herman Mueller was born at Mannheim in 1876, his father being the owner of a small brewery- His education was cut short owing to family circumstances, and he had to go into an office, but at the early age of 17 he joined the Socialist party. He attracted the attention of the leader of the party, who took him to the Socialist headquarters, where he was engaged till 1918. Two years earlier he had entered the Reichstag and soon became a member of the Central Council of the German Republic. He rose to the chairmanship of the party, and becamo Foreign Minister in the —~-~ 1 Bauer . Cabinet, which signed the peace agreement. Dr. Mueller was the first German to be elected a vice-presi-dent of the International Labour Office at Geneva. He again came into prominence in 1928, when he formed his second Government. In November, however, a crisis arose in the Socialist opposition to the building of the "pocket battleship," but on the threat of the Minister of Defence to resign the motion was defeated. In the meanwhile the Parliamentary system was breaking down, and in March last there was talk of a Dictatorship, or of a directory consisting, of Dr. Mueller, Herr Stresemann, and Herr Braun, the Prussian Premier. The crisis was averted, however, and in April Dr. Mueller succeeded in forming a Coalition Cabinet.