LITTLE HOPE HELD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18465, 2 August 1934, Page 5

LITTLE HOPE HELD

HINDENBURG’S ILLNESS NEW GERMAN PROBLEM (Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) LONDON, August 1. Marshal von Hindenlmrg’s tight against illness, which is feared to be Ins last, on the twentieth anniversary of the World War, is featured in all the newspapers, which claim that he prevented Germany from drifting into more serious domestic problems than she has encountered. The removal of this great figure at so troubled a time would be regarded as darkening an already obscure European situation.

The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent says: “His life seemed to many to he Hie last bulwark against the dissension of civil war. In conversations with Germans there are three views of what may happen if the president should die. Some sav that Herr Hitler will be President, others that there will be no President, and others that, in some respects a man-made President is a mere figurehead. It is believed in best-informed circles that Herr Hitler will combine the Chancellorship with .the Presidency, or that a Regency Council will be appointed as a temporary measure. All that is certain is that the Cabinet possesses full power to decide the best course, subject always to the attitude of the Rdichswehr.” A bulletin issued at Neudeck at 8.30 a. in. says that Marshal von I lindenburg's weakness' is increasing. Herr Hitler is flying to Neudeck. Political circles increasingly expect Herr Hitler to become President.

The newspaper Dietsche Zeitung lot the cat out of the bag yesterday by disclosing that Herr Hitler would succeed President Hindenbnrg, and the paper was suspended for a week in consequence.