The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-11-10
IN THE FATHERLAND
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHAT'S DOING IN OLD HOME
Summary of the Most Important Hap.
penIngs in the Land Of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German,
Readers.

hcdOeFS.
Famous estates owned by Ameri-
cans in Europe have been placed at
the service of the combatants Count
ess Johannes Won Siersdorff, the for
mer Mary knowlton of Brooklyn, n.
T., turned over her castle to ST.
les1a to the kaiserin for the use of
the Red Cross. Then she herself went
to Berlin and entered the ranks of a
hospital nurse corps there. Her hus-
band is in the German army. In
happier times they once spent $50 900
! to entertain the kaiser at a single
days shooting on the estate now given
for the use Of the German wounded.
Another German Red Cross nurse is
the beautiful Duchess Leishman. The
duke is a lieutenant in the guard
corps and his German castles and
estates are receiving wounded sol
diers, while his Hungarian chateau
has been offered to Archduke Fred
erick, Austrian commander-in-c chief,
Tor hospital. The women of the
American colony in Berlin are work
ing like beavers. The American
church is now a hospital, while the
American Woman's club has offered
to use it's beautiful building also.
The American women are attending
Red Cross lectures and have gone so
far as to offer to receive wounded
men in their own homes should there
be an overflow from the hospitals.
Although the German socialists in
the reichstag voted for the 81 100000,
600 appropriated to carry on the pres
ent war, and although members OF
the party went to the front as enthus-
istically as did the nonsocialists.
their political creed has not altered.
They still condemn and oppose the
policy of the government and retain
what they term class Conscientious
ness" When the war is over they say
they intend to take up anew the bat
tie ito free the proletariat from the
yoke of capital" These aims are
set forth by Vorwaerts, the chief or
gan of the party, in a remarkable ar
ticle which has led to the indefinite
prohibition of the papers publication.
This is the second penalty inflicted on
VOrwaerts, its appearance having been
but recently prohibited for three days
because of an article giving what the
military authorities considered many
details about the German campaign in
the Southwest. 1t is probable that
the paper has come into some degree
of disfavor because of is repeated in
functions to it's readers not to believe
too readily stories of atrocities, wheth-
er the allegations came from the Ger
man side or from the enemy.
Professor Usher says with regard
to modern Pan-Germanism: ITO Sc
cure a share of the worlds trade in
some fashion which will not expose
her to the attacks of the English fleet,
and which will create an empire less
vulnerable in every way than she be-
iieves the British empire to be, an
overland route to the East must be
found The Germans consider perfect
confederation of states, including Ger
many, Austria, Hungary, the Balkan
states and Turkey, which would con-
troll a great band of territory stretch
ing southeast from the North sea to
the Persian gulf A railway from Con-
stantinople to Bagdad would effectu-
ally tie the great trunk lines leading
from the Rhine and Danube valleys to
COnstantinople and the Persian gulf,
and so establish a shorter route to
India than that via Suez"
Germany will shortly surprise the
world with the greatest siege guns
known to history, according to Adolph
F. Gall, an engineer employed in the
Edison laboratory in New York city
The new guns he said, will shoot
from 81 to % miles. They will be of
5002 and 55-centimeter caliber-19b
to u inches. They will supersede
the famous 42-centimeter G6.5-inch)
siege guns, and do vastly more dam
age than that famous piece of artillery
has done" Gall claimed to have
learned of the manufacture by the
Krupps of these new big brothers to
the busy Berthas'' from two acquaint-
ances, officers on the German general
staff.
Cholera is making rapid strides
throughout Hungary and the progress
of the disease is causing alarm among
the people The Hungarian authori-
ties, it now appears, were too lax In
the beginning in the matter of the
sanitary supervision of prisoners
camps, which since have been placed
under special control
For quarter of a century Kaiser
Wilhelm has visited the cathedral of
Trondhjem, Norway, every summer,
and every time he has donated 1000
marks to the fund for restoring it to
its original grandeur This time he did
not get as far north as Trondhjem on
account of the breaking out of the
war. But in the midst of the German
empires struggle between life and
death he still found time to think of
the cathedral of Trondhjem, and even
to send the usual contribution of 1,00G
marks.
Members of the German and Aus
tro-Hungarian Relief societies of Chi
cago are striving to raise 100000 for