The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-12-29
IN THE FATHERLANI
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHAT'S DOING IN CID HOME
Summary of the Most Important Hap
penings in the Land OF the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.

timely ltemS Tor the herman
Readers.
The Koelnische Zeitung says that de-
spite all friendliness with America,
| the Germans must not allow them
selves to be deceived and they must
look in the face the fact that America
cannot be an arbitrator in the fight
between Germany and Great Britain.
1t would be an ostrich policy. the
newspaper declares, not to recognize
that public opinion in America, TAX en-
as whole, is entirely friendly a
Great Britain. It may be argued, l.
says, that the American government
has observed the strictest neutrality,
but one can be. neutral in an indif-
ferent way and on the whole Ameri-
can neutrality has been favorable to
Great Britain. In view of all this we
cannot have in America the conf
dence which we ought to be able to
repose in power which would act as
an impartial arbitrator in regard to an
arrangement of peace. We cherish no
feeling Of irritation against America
because she is friendly to Great Brit
ain. Such feeling is only natural rs
Great Britain is Americas mother
land; but it is just fer this reason we
fear prejudice and, we must in a
friendly but firm manner reject Amer
lea as an arbitrator"
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The department CT agriculture haa
been so successful that there can be
little doubt that the productivity Of
land in Germany is proportionately
| greater for the labor and capital in
vested than in any other country in
| the world, and so farreaching have
| been it's operations that the imperial
| government claims that over 50 per
| cent of the land in Germany is pro,
| ductive. The defniteness with which
| the Germans have catalogued the land
| located the areas on which grain can
be grown, and computed the maximum
! product from those varied areas, equals
| the exactitude with which they have
| tabulated the army. 1t would be stupid
| Il the men directing the destinies
| of Germany had omitted from their
| elaborate calculations provision for so
| elemental a necessity as an entirely
adequate supply of food. They knew
on the first day of August precisely
| how much food they had on hand, and
| precisely where the new supplies were
coming from. Not improbably they
could have furnished list CT the men
and women who would SOW and reap
the future harvests.
The German surgeons have begun
| TO talk about their experience in heal
| ing the wounded in this war. Profes-
sor Payr of Leipsic university pointed
cut that the balls used in 3hrapnel
shells produce MUCK more dangerous
wounds than rife bullets. They carry
into the body fragments of clothing, a
corresponding quantity Of dangerous
germs, and they are much more likely
| to be lodged in the body. There was
suppuration in 70 to Is per cent OF
cases. The same danger is still more
serious with wounds from fragments
of shells A new kind of wound has
been caused by the sharp steel ar
French aeroplanists. These arrows
have about the thickness of an
ordinary lead pencil, and when thrown
from height of about five thousand
feet strike their victim with the We
locity of a rife ball Payr says they
produce very dangerous wounds.
|
A legal inquiry had been ordered
by the state department to determine
whether there would be any basis for
action by the United States if investiga.
ton should establish the truth of Ger
many's charge that mushroom" bull
lets are being made in America and
shipped in large quantities into Can
ada to be used by the allies in the
European war. This inquiry, Mr.
Bryan said, might be followed by an
inquiry as to the facts connected with
the alleged manufacture and exporta
ton of these bullets. The German
complaint, submitted recently, alleged
that the use of such bullets being
/
it is the duty of the United States
government as signatory OF The
Hague conventions to prevent their
use, if necessary by prohibiting their
manufacture and expectation.
The most interesting feature of the
German peace plan-granting that
| Germany wins-is to annex Russian
! Poland to German Poland and make
united territory. kingdom of Poland
under a Polish throne. The kingdom
would have the same relation to the
| German empire as have the kingdoms
of Saxony, Bavaria and Wuerttemberg.
|
1t is declared that the Germans have
! been maintaining what is described as
naval station outside Of Valparaiso,
Chile. Here they brought together
vessels having on board coal and pro
visions Chilean papers say that the
government is determined to stot
these breaches of neutrality.
Reports received from Austria IN
| official quarters admit that 60.O0s
| wounded soldiers are in the Vienn4
| hospitals and that at least double thxS
| humber are slightly wounded or COZ
| ealescent.
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