Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-04-24
NEWS FROM FA1HERLAkD |
A Brief Resume Of the Most I'm.
portant Happenings in the
German Empire.

! portant happenings in the
German Empire.
It is public secret that two great
German steamship companies are pre-
pared to carry passengers directly
from Europe to California as soon as
the Panama canal is opened. The
rates will be the same as to New York;
plus the extra charges for passing
through the canal.
The battleship Moltke, with record
Of 29k miles an hour on it's speed
trials, and which will be one of the
vessels of the fleet to visit America in
June, will attempt to break the trans
Atlantic mark on the voyage across.
This test will be made at the sugges-
ton of the kaiser. The original plan
for Prince Adalbert, the kaiser's third
son, to accompany the squadron has
been abandoned.
A remarkable operation has just
been performed on an imbecile child
by Professor Erwin Payr, director of
the surgical clinic attached to. the
Leipsic university. The professor
planted q piece of the thyroid gland
taken from healthy child born of a
healthy mother into the liver of an
imbecile child, who Immediately after.
wards began to improve in intelli.
gence, which steadily increased until a
complete cure was effected.
Hona GorioHo fho uo,rop N1rvo -
engineer who won the 1911 Gordon
Bennett balloon race in the United
States, told the Berlin Aero club that
he regarded the crossing of the At
lantic in an ordinary balloon as alto
gether feasible. Steady westerly to
easterly winds, said Herr Gericke,
blew along the 18th latitude, which
with fair luck, ought to enable a bal
loon to get from America to England
In three or four days. He thinks the
chances with a balloon at least as
favorable as with dirigible airship..
The social position Of the foreign
newspaper correspondent in the city
of Berlin is slowly improving and.
while q comparatively few years ago
he, as we'll as his native colleague, the
German journalist, was rather social
outcast, Is is now received with open
arms almost everywhere. The fact
is, the kaiser as well as the upper
classes, have begun to realize the
enormous power of the press for good
or evil, and the result is that states
men find it better plan to initiate
responsible journalists into their
plans, trusting them to keep secret
what must be kept secret, when asked
to do so, than allow them to let their
imagination run wild with nothing but
unreliable rumors to work on.
Kaiser Wilhelm is quoted by cour-
tiers, who view with dislike the ad-
mission Of Americans to the inner
imperial circle in the following words:
when receive visitors it is under
stood as matter of etiquette that the
conversation remains private and con-
fidential. There is nothing extraordi-
nary about this. It is rule of polite
life and for any one to do otherwise
is a breach of good faith. It is not the
first time I have been treated this
| way by Americans but intend that it
shall be the last" This statement
refers to Colonel Goethals, who re-
ported him as saying, that the Pana-
ma canal should be strongly fortified,
and that the United States should
have very much stronger military
force there than we have now"
Fruitless efforts have just been
| made by some Americans living in
Germany to recover possession by pur-
| chase of one of the most important
American historic treasures, the old
oaken table on which the declaration
of independence was signed. This
| table, or desk, has, it appears, been
for many years in the hands of the
Bismarck family, having been pre-.
| sented to Prince Bismarck by a group
of German-American admirers. It is
| now in the Bismarck museum at
| Schonhausen, near Berlin. The title
to the objects in the museum is now
vested in Princess Herbert Won Bis
| marck, the statesman's widowed
daugnter-in-law. She prizes the
American souvenirs, including the
declaration of independence table, 50
highly that she even refused all over
lures to have them transported across
the ocean in 1904 for exhibition at the
St. Louis fair
Cured to large extent of the Yep.
pelin monomania which absorbed the
country in 1908, Germany is now de
voting herself heart and soul to the
creation of feet of flying machines
Enthusiasm over 1.-THE fourth arm" has
become universal. The kaiser, long
a skeptic on the subject, has set him
i self at the head of the movement by
Offering a $12,500 prize for the best
aeroplane motor invented between
now and his next birthday. A South
German champagne firm has placed
I $4,000 at the war lords disposal fol
the promotion of military airmanship
| "A dozen great flying weeks and cross
| country circuits will be held during
the year. Schools Of airmanship are
flourishing everywhere. In the army
flying promises to become the most
popular Of arms. The war Office not
long ago called for half a hundred
| volunteers for the air service. Over &
thousand officers responded. NC.
| Kaiser Franz Joseph had made ur
his mind to abdicate when Kaiser