While the aged German President, Paul von Hindenburg, engaged in a losing struggle with death on his closely guarded estate at Neudeck, East Prussia, Chancellor Adolf Hitler, according to reliable informants, was preparing to seize the Presidency which he will combine with the office of Chancellor and thus become the undisputed dictator of Germany with no brake whatsoever on his power.
The latest reports from Neudeck declared that the Reichspresident was rapidly sinking into a coma with death a question of hours at the most.
“The President’s weakness is increasing,” the latest medical report issued from Neudeck stated. “He is gradually losing consciousness. His heart is slowing.”
In the meantime the brownshirted Nazi storm troops, a powerful force, are once more on the streets of Germany. Specially picked, black-shirted guards are posted at all public buildings and the people of Germany wait apprehensively for what may follow the death of the, “old gentleman” as the President was universally known.
The Nazi cabinet is in special continuous session in Berlin. Chancellor Hitler is said to be returning to Berlin from a hurried visit he paid to the dying chief executive at Neudeck.
While the German constitution provides that the President of the German Supreme Court is to assume the office on the death of the President, the emergency powers vested in the Hitler government are so great and the chances of opposition, save from the Reichs-
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