Hamburg, Jan. 3.
Dr, Wilhelm Cuno, former (Chan cello? and present managing director of the Hamburg America Line, died here this" morning from heart failure, aged 56. Dr. Cuno became managing. director of the German steamship company succession to Herr Albert Ballin.
November, 1922, he formed 2 Cabinet which lasted until the autumn of 1928.
Dr. Cuno not. only. played a leading role in the rebuilding of Germany's merchant fleet but, was. also at the helm. of the Reich during one of its most critical periods in 1923, when France's in-'Yasion of the Ruhr district threat ned to plunge Germany into chaos President von. Hindenburg sent a message of condolence to Dr. Cuno's family in which he refers to the work of deceased in the rehabilitation and restoration of German economic, life, The funeral se-rice was attended by thousands of people, including representatives, o President von Hindenburg, the Ger-constituted, a new record, unemploy- mai Government, and of British tment did not appear to be increas and. French shipping companies Ing so rapidly now as during the 'Trans-Ocean Kie Min. corresponding" period' last year—Reuter.
Paris, Jan. 6
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