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Show PiUSX. SUFFERS RELAPSE Tracheal Bronchitis Has Developed, Doe to Urae-mic Urae-mic Adds. BLINDS OF BEDROOM ARE CLOSELY DRAWN Condition EarUer Was Improved Im-proved and Physicians Were Hopeful. f-M-MH I I 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ROME, April 12, 6:10 p. m. The pope's fever has reached 103. The pope's condition is be- romiag steadily worse. The Vatican guards have been doubled to see tbat no one shall enter. ti l I H I I'M I I I I I H I I I I I 1 I It ROME. April 12. The pope has suffered suf-fered another relapse. Tracheal bronchitis bron-chitis has developed. Tbe hope Is entertained by the physicians physi-cians that the bronchitis is due to uraemic acids settling in the upper part of the trachea instead of to infectious inflammation. A group of people gathered on the steps of St. Peter's, faxing at the windows win-dows of the pope's apartment, noticed that the blinds of his bedroom ware closed this afternoon. The condition of the 'pope is regarded as grave, especially on account of his weak state. This has caused the fear )o arise that he will be nnable to overcome over-come the new attack. The relapse ia not yet generally known, even among the vat lean officials. offi-cials. Only the sisters and a niece of tbe pope were nntifled of the relapse. They drove hnrriedly to the Vatican. The Oseervatore Romano, the vatiean official newspaper, published this evening even-ing tbe following: "Oa April 7 the pope fell ill with relapse of influenza, with symptoms of trachael bronchitis. The fever stopped three days ago, but returned today with aggravation of catarrh in the thorax. There are no symptoms to canee alarm. "tR. MAROHIAFAVA. "DR. AMICI." The sisters of the pope, who had believed be-lieved him entirely out of danger, war deeply Impressed by the relapae and gave way to their feelings Then they resumed re-sumed their nursing of the patient. Cardinal Merry Del Val, the papal secretary sec-retary of state, declared shortly after noon that the appearance of the pope waa unsatisfactory. He thought he looked more haggard and weaker, while the difficulty dif-ficulty in his breathing had augmented. Cardinal Merry Del Val communicated this had Impression to his own father, the Marquis Merry Del Val, late Spanish embassador to the Vatican, and now on a visit to Rome who, together with his wife and daughter, called this afternoon at the Vatican to write his nsme In the visitors' book In the pope's antechamber. |