The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14
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 fer the German
Readers.

Readers.
Metz-Lieut. Won La Valette Saint
George of the Ninety eighth German
infantry regiment, was sentenced to
so months Imprisonment in a fortress
for killing Lieutenant Haage in a
duel. He was also dismissed from the
army. The court found that the pris-
oner by his conduct had provoked the
duel and had gravely wronged the
honor of Lieutenant Haage The Sc
we're sentence imposed upon Lieuten-
ant Saint George is the first really
severe blow delivered against duelling
among army officers. The court, by
its judgment, has virtually given no.
tice that officers who wrong the fam
lily honor of fellow officers are not to
be treated as gentlemen and the fact
that they vanquish their opponents
will not rehabilitate their own honor.
The sentence is in line with remarks
made in the reichstag by Lieut.. Gen.
Erich Won Falkenhayn, minister OF
war; who admitted that Guelling was
an offense against the laws of God and
of man and was an evidence of ply
steal rather than of moral courage.
Austrian geographers came out in a
vigorous support of DR.. Felix Koenig
in the controversy with Sir Ernest
Shackleton over the plans for the
rival Austrian and British antarctic
expeditions this year, which have
aroused strong international jealousies.
The council of the Austrian Geo.
graphical society issued statement
declaring that the plans of the Aus
trian expedition to be commanded by
Doctor Koenig were announced in
June, 1913, while those of Sir Ernest
Shackleton's expedition were published
In November. Since then, the council
says, Sir Ernest's plans gradually have
| taken definite form, continually COM
ing nearer to those of Doctor Koenig.
Sir Ernest's statements in 1910, when
he claims his program was formed,
were indefinite and without germ Of
plan," according to the council
'The Koenig expedition has absolute
| priority"
The people of Berlin do not appear
to be good churchgoers, according to
a census taken Of attendants at the
Protestant churches the last Sunday
in February. The count covered 70
| parishes, with a Protestant population
of 2,0600 900, of whom only 26,240 were
counted at church that day, either
morning or evening. Even according
to the estimates of a clergyman, who
| criticized the figures as too low, the
number was only 1000 greater. Thus
! barely twenty out of every thousand
! Protestant Berliners, at the highest
estimate, attended church on the Sun
| day in question. Very few men were
seen in the churches; in many cases
women and children constituted three
fourths Of the congregation. Less than
one-sixth of the seating capacity of the
churches was occupied at the morning
services.
The trip to Africa which the crown
y
definitely abandoned. 1t is under
stood that the reason for this step is
| the kaiser's objection to the crown
prince interrupting his work on the
| general staff of the army by such a
long absence. Another reason put for
ward in some quarters is that the
reichstag would refuse an appropria-
ton to cover the expenses of such
trip.
Frau Nelly Beese, noted German
woman air pilot, expects to fly across
the Atlantic ocean and exhibit new
hydroaeroplane she is building, at the
Panama-Pacifc exposition. Frau Beese
is the only woman flying teacher in
the world, and has successfully con-
Quoted a school of aviation at johann
nisthal for three years The machine
in which she expects to cross the At
lantic is one she designed herself
Leipsic-The supreme court upheld
the action Of the Duke de Talleyrand.
husband of Anna Gould, who, in 1910,
renowned his rights to the crown Fief
of Sagan in Silesia, in favor of his
son, Prince Jason Howard of Sagan.
The Duke de 'Talleyrand's German
creditors attacked the validity of the
transfer, By which they were rendered
unable to attach the revenues Of the
Fief.
The Farmers league, whose annual
convention in Berlin just closed, de-
clares that the exodus from rural dis
trict to city has made it impossible
for the land owners to find enough ma
tive farm laborers.
Ferdinand Eglinski, a tailor in the
village Of Ahlbeck, on the Baltic,
claims to be Germany's champion IA
Their. He has been married twice and
his wives have borne 50 children, 26 Of
whom are living. There were two sets
of twins and one Of triplets. The
kaiser. on learning that Eglinshs
sixth son had entered the army, sum-
moned the father to Berlin, and after
giving him a donation Of money said:
Keep up the good work, Eglinski!"
The tailor saIuted and replied: AT
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