+Berlin, Feb, 28, President Chert has died.
This morning's bulletin came as a great shock particularly in view of last night's report that President Ebert's condition was improving.
The sudden worsening was due the aggravation of the peritonitis Jat five o'clock this morning, when the patient's vitality and resistance were at a low ebb.
President Chert died without regaining consciousness. His wife and children, and the Secretary of State, Herr Meisener, were at his With the death of President Chert, the world loves one of the many men who in recent years have worked their way into the highest Posts of the land, though lowly be through the ranks of Socialism. Th President came in for considerable publicity in recent months in connexion with the Magdeburg. libel case, when he was. accused by political enemies of high treason, by fostering a strike among German munition workers during the war, that did Germany a considerable amount of damage. Herr Chert was equally arraigned on this charge, will be remembered, and was found technically guilty, but morally ind innocent, his defence that he joined the ranks of the strikers for the purpose of persuading them to go ack to work being accepted. At time there were large and en-demonstrations in his The Into President was the son of humble parents; born February 4, 1870, the son of a master tailor. His education was scanty, and as a young boy he was apprenticed to a harness maker, He continued in this trade for some taking a great interest mean-in Socialistie problems. In hho took over the editorship of the Soctal Democratic organ "Breibheg®r Zeitung." He later rose high in Socialistic circles, and in 1912 first entered the Reichstag. In the following year he was elected chairman of the Social-Democratic party of Germany, He became Presiden 1919, and i term of office was a stirring one. It witnessed the several enactments of the Allies affecting the country the Versailles Treaty, the occup: tion of the Rhine, and the reparations difficulties, Always he carried out a policy conspicuous for its moderation, until his death President Chert had five children, eluding two sons who were killed the war.
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