DEATH BRINGS CONFUSION INTO POLITICS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 16, 4 October 1929, Page 5

DEATH BRINGS CONFUSION INTO POLITICS

GOVERNMENT’S STRONG MAN. SUFFERED FOR YEARS FROM KIDNEY DISEASE. (Received 10.45 a.m.) BERLIN, October 3. Hr. Streseipann’s death has brought confusion into German politics. He was the strong man of the Government, which is now like a ship without a helmsman. Undoubtedly he killed himself by overwork. He had been suffering for years from severe kidney disease. Tile doctors repeatedly warned him that, his life was in danger by continuing in palitics. Last Friday he gave a reception to foreign journalists, when he gave the impression that he was a sick man who ought to be a-bed. Yesterday /he Iliad a very streix nous day and field several conferences with the Chancellor and other politicians, aud also attended a meeting of the* People’s Party. In an effort to avert the threatened Government crisis over the unemployed insurance law he made a long statement, but was only able to speak slowly and feebly.— Australian Press 'Association, United Service.

SCENE IN THE REICHSTAG. 4 J SEAT DRAPED WITH BLACK. j (Received 10.5 a.m.) . j BERLIN, October 3rd. J * When the Reichstag assembled j this morning, Herr Stresemann’s .seat on the Ministerial bench was draoed in black and a Wreath laid on it. A bunch of whit© chrysanthemums adorned the place where he sat as a deputy.

All, excepting the Communists and extreme Nationalists, who hated Stresemann and his policy, rose when the Vice-President opened the sitting, eulogising iStresema/nn’is work' and declaring that it should be written in letters of gold. The Cabinet is holding a mourning sitting.—Australian Press Assn. ESTEEM HIM AS A FRIEND. . GREAT WORK FOR PEAbt. MACDONALD’S TRIBUTE. (Received f> a.m) MONTREAL, October 3 Aboard the Berengaria Mr Ramsay MacDonald was deeply affected by the news of Herr Stresemann’is death. He said: “I am deply grieved, for Dr. Streseman was not only one of those men upon whose work the peaceful evolution of Europe depended, but in my various contacts with him I came to know and esteem him as a friend. His memory is secure and I cannot believe that the great services ho has given to pacification with such patience and faith can ho undone. On behalf of the British Government I send! his relatives and his country our (deepest sympathy.” —Australian Press Assn. BRIAND DEEPLY MOVED- i

“LOFTY OUTLOOK AND FINE LOYALTY.” / (Received 10.5 a.m.) PARTS, October -0. M. Briand has telegraphed! to Fran Strcscmann; " tI T learned of Herr Stresemarin’s death with the deepest emotion. 1 will aTwavs retain the deepest respect for his memory in pursuit of a common ideal. Herr Streseman caused me to appreciate hi s loftv outlook and fine loyalty.” —Australian Press Assn.