Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-02
NEWS FROM FATHERLAND |
A Brief Resume Of tho Most I'm.
portant Happenings In tho
German Empire.
The birthrate is going down in the


has declared with emphasis that Com.
mander Peary actually went to the
north pole.
Kaiser Franz Joseph has not only
recovered from his recent cold, but q
few nights ago the octogenarian sur
prised the whole nation by attending q
court ball until it closed, long after
midnight.
News dispatches from Hamburg rep
resent shipping circles there as alarm.
ed over the prospect of differences be-
tween the Canadian Pacific and other
English lines affecting adversely the
transatlantic shipping pool and per.
haps resulting in rate war. The
Canadian Pacific's cancellation of all
agreements concerning the Liverpool
Canada traffic would affect all lines, as
reduction in the passenger rates to
Canada would divert traffic from the
ports of the United States.
The Siemens-Schukhart dirigible
balloon, the largest non-rigid type OF
airship ever constructed, made it's first
ascent near Berlin and Unanswered
successfully for thirty minutes, dur.
Ing which it developed speed Of more
than twenty-seven miles an hour. The
airship was built under the supervision
of the military aero corps and will be
purchased for use in the German army
If its trials prove satisfactory. There
are three gondolas with q total ca.
pacity for fifty passengers.
An extraordinary credit of 81 ,000,.
600 as first installment toward the
contraction Of new warships, appears
in the Austro-Hungary budget which
was presented to the delegations by
Baron Burian Won Rajecz, minister of
finance. The navy building program
for the next six years provides for
four Dreadnaughts of 10000 tons each,
three cruisers, twelve torpedo boats
and six submarines at total cost OF
$62,400,OO0. The army estimates for
the coming year have been increased
by $S,600,000, the total expenditures
being placed at $44S,OOO,O00.
An arrangement has been made with
the department of the ministry of edu-
of "the Amerika Institut," to be de.
voted to the improvement Of intellectu.
al relations between Germany and the
United States. 1t has nothing to do
with finances or imports, but is limit
ed to the improvement of mutual rela
tons and interests in research, schol
arship, education, professional cOurte.
sizes, literature and art. Professor
Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard uni
versity, who is exchange professor In
the University of Berlin, is the invent
or and promoter of the enterprise and
has received an endowment of $4,000
from German-American bankers and
the advance of social and educational
cooperation between the citizens of
the two countries.
The sinking of the "U3," the Ger
man navy's first submarine disaster,
cost three lives. The dead are the
captain of the submarine and Lieuten-
ants Fischer and Kobe, the latter be.
ing the helmsman. Their deaths were
due to an unforeseen mishap at the
moment the officials Of the navy were
receiving congratulations upon the
supposed successful raising of the
''U3" and the rescue of the crew.
When the submarine, three hours af.
ter she sank, had been brought to the
surface by the salvage ship Vaulkan
and twenty-seven of her men had made
their way to safety through the tor
pedo tube, the captain and the two
ship until she was once more master
of herself. The three men were in
the coming tower 81" which remained
submerged. Here the men might have
stayed without danger for some time
as the boat had large supply of
oxygen but for an accident that shut
off this supply from the tower. Word
was sent out that the raising had been
successful and that the crew was safe.
The work was continued, when sud.
denly ventilator gave way, permit.
, ting the water to rush into the sub.
marine, isolating the tower and cut.
ting off the oxygen upon which the
| the thrush of water the bow of the
ship rose quickly, but the stern where
the tower 81" is located, sank deep.
or. Recognizing the peril Of the Off.
GERS, the rescuers worked desperately
| to reach them, but it was sixteen hours
before an entrance to the tower could
[ be forced Long before that time the
/, men had died of suffocation. They
had failed to answer the signals of the
vulkan's crew and apparently death
had come hours before the bodies were
recovered. With little hope artificial
respiration was attempted but the fl.
tility of this was soon evident. Lieu.
tenant Fischer was married a week
ago. The loss of the officers is pecu.
liarly distressing as the fatalities are
attributed to too hasty attempt to
raise the submarine with small
crane.
The exports of Germany for the year
| 1910 pprn pafpd ahOuf 81 260 000 00O