Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-11-17
| NEWS FROM /! ] J! FATHERlAND.
A Brief Resume Of the Most I'm
portant Happenings in the
German Empire.
Archbishop Aichner, aged IS years,

Archbishop Alchner, aged 96 years,
died at Neustift monastery.
Kaiser Wilhelm spoke German at
public banquet in Brussels. Which
the French considered a piece of
shocking rudeness.
NJ. Th1ebaud declares in the Paris
Libre Parole that the Germans were
really the people that started the revo-
luton in Portugal!
Berlin.-It is stated that a great
part of the biography of Frederick the
Great, which the kaiser is reported to
be writing, already is completed.
The newspapers of Belgium con-
tanned very sympathetic editorials on
the recent visit of Kaiser Wilhelm and
Kaiserin Augusta to the Belgian CAPT.
tai. ~~
Rear Admiral Kalau vom Hofe
claims In a newspaper article that
submarines are useless in practical
warfare, and he coolly figures on
them as SO much scrap iron.
The financial status of the German
empire is unfacorable. The receipts
from the customs and taxes are far be-
low the estimates. The result is, that
it will be difficult to make out budget
of expenses for the coming year.
= There was very hot time in the
landtag of Mahren the other day. The
immediate cause was a Sunday ses-
sion. The assembly had been in ses-
sion almost uninterruptedly for four
days in order to break the obstruction
OF the Germans, who were trying to
guard their rights against the on
slaughts of the Slavs.
The military department of the Ger
man empire is very busily engaged in
procuring a considerable fleet of heav-
ier-than-air flying machines. A short
while ago six aeroplanes of different
systems were ordered, and now orders
for much larger number have been
placed. A Vienna engineer named
Etrich has been asked to furnish twen-
ty single deckers, his machines having
made a splendid record at the Johan.
nisthaler aerial regatta, and Minister
of War Heeringen of Prussia having
satisfied himself that this system is
superior to the others.
The question of the Turkish loans
Is still discussed with ardor in tho
European press. When the French
failed to place the loan the French
press claimed that the Germans had
induced the Turks to offer terms
which it was impossible for the French
bankers to accept. The Kolnische
Zeitung, which is close to the foreign
office In Berlin, retorts that the charg-
es are made out of whole cloth This
paper further says that France tried
to make political capital out of the
loan, which Germany, on the other
hand, is not doing while negotiations
are pending for a loan to Turkey from
German bankers.
Kaiser Wilhelm interviewed during
the construction of the new bridge
which was recently. opened over the
Rhine at Kolnfl This bridge. by the
way, is decorated with an equestrian
! statue of the kaiser himself, the first
that has yet been erected. The bridge
is flanked by four towers, equal
| height, but the kaiser went over the
designs and insisted that the two
downstream towers should be higher
than those facing upstream. This sex-
pensive alteration was duly carried
out, but the effect is so unfortunate
that the plan must again be altered
and the two high towers reduced to
the level of the others.
Negotiations are pending for An
enormous increase of the productive
capacity OF, the Krupp ordnance works
at Essen through the purchase OF the
steel and iron works Of Mannesmann
Bros. of Dusseldorf. The Names.
mann company, which represents q
capital of $5,500,0OO, will be absorbed
in Krupp's, whose capital is $4,000.
600. The Mannesmann Bros, on
whose behalf Germany and France
were engaged in protracted diplomatic
negotiations concerning a mining con
cession in Morocso a year ago, have
a practical monopoly of the seamless
tubing industry in Germany. 1t is this
branch which is about to pass into the
hands Of the Krupps,. ,.> -. -.
A London Authority" says: That
Germany has an eye on Denmark, Hol
land and Belgium, no European dtplo
mat for moment doubts. From ;,
territorial standpoint it cares compare
lively little for them. but for strategic
4 purposes 1t. cares for them, a great
deal. There is not much question thai
It is with view to their, acquisition
that the Fatherland has been building
the Big navy which has given England
80 much uneasiness. Their fuel Ca
pacity limits most of its big ships t
short cruises in the North sea. Eng
land i the only formidable powel
against which they can, be. etfectivel.
used: England would assuredly re
4 sist German grab Of Denmark. Hol
land and Belgium, and Germany ii
getting ready to effect it's grab wheth
er England resists or not. German.
4 needs those three little countries AM
1t will continue to need them as a re