The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-12-01
IN THE FA7HER[AND
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.

The London Daily Telegraph says:
Germany has great advantage over
other nations, as the whole people re-
ceives military training and every
available man stands under arms.
Germany has no less than 81 army
corps. This mass of people which
keeps itself in defense and is sup
ported by Notifications of the strong
est rank, means such a terrible power
that 1T will demand great new sacri-
fees on the part of the English people
to subdue it. The French fight bravely
in defending their ground. but the abil-
lty of their armies to carry out a seri-
Gus aggressive movement is dimin-
| ished every day"
The Morning Post says: "The main
fact which has become plain during
the war is the immense strength OF
| Germany, which enabled her to drive
the Russians out of East Prussia, to
| oppose them from the Baltic to the
Carpathians, at the same time to over
run Belgium, drive the allied armies
from the Sambre to the Marine, and,
after the retreat to the Aisne, to hold
| this line and even extend the right
| flank"
| 1t is generally taken for granted
that immigration will be very heavy
| after the war. But whence will 1t
| come? asks a German-American paper.
From Germany? Scarcely. For the
times that followed the war of 1870.
and at the close of the seventies and
the beginning of the eighties brought
the heaviest German immigration, are
| forever past as far as Germany is con-
cerned. AS soon as peace is estab-
lished Germany will at once apply her
peculiar energy to the task of replac-
ing what has been destroyed and re-
building her industrial life and COM
merce. This means that Germany
| will need her people. That Germany
which entered the war so consciously
and periodically will also know how
to keep her sons and daughters at
home when peace has been estab-
lished. From Austria-Hungary? Per
| haps. The work of reconstruction will
keep people busy there too. But a
part of the monarchy (Galicia, Bosnia,
etc. may be so exhausted that the
men will wish to make money fast,
and to such the United States will
seem inviting.
New York-Captain Estill of the
British steamer Royal Sceptre, which
arrived from Santos, Brazil, told how
his ship, with cargo of coffee in
transit for Toronto, escaped capture
by the German cruiser Karlsruhe be-
cause the destination was New York.
About midnight on October q in lati-
tude 0.52 south, longitude 41.37 west,
the Royal Sceptre ran near a group
of four vessels and found herself the
prize of the Karlsruhe The German
cruiser sent a boat alongside and an
officer looked over the ships papers.
After convincing themselves that the
Royal Sceptre was bound for New
York the Germans released her Cap
tain Estill said the Germans evidently
did not wish to modest a cargo they
thought was for the United States.
AS soon as the Russians reoccupied
LODI, in Russian Poland. the civil adj
ministration. which had been inaugur-
ated by the Germans in cooperation
with Polish officials and which was
maintained as long as the German
forces were in possession, at once
gave way to strict Russian military
rule and the old order of things re-
turned The Germans, while in LODI,
behaved admirably. They supported
thousands of people who were left
without employment when the failure
of the coal supply made it necessary
to close the local cotton mills. These
people were utterly destitute and fire.
auently succumbed to starvation
The German authorities even supplied
the people with fuel free of charge.
The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, in an
editorial on the death of Earl Roberts,
says: con the occasion of the death
of Earl Roberts the whole German
press expresses itself approximately
dUOuL Tic ldlCu LNSu III Wdl,
moments occur when the fighter sa-
lutes the enemy with the saber in
stead of striking him with it. Such
a moment has arisen with the depar-
ture of Roberts"
A five-mile tunnel through the Jura
mountains, from Moutier, France, to
Grenchen, Switzerland, has been fin
ished after three years uninterrupted
work The cost of cutting the tunnel
was 100000
A telegram from Vienna states that
731 officers and 1894 men are pris-
oners of war in the Austrian concen-
tration camps. "The enemy's wounded
are being treated like our own sol
diers." the telegram goes on to say,
while the officers who are prisoners
are interned in castles and in great
private houses and the captured 3Ien
in great barracks"
Switzerland's second war loan of
$10,000,000 in 5 per cent bonds was
oversubscribed three times, although
only the home market WIS concerned
In addressing the Branden burg reg.
iment in France recently, at a point
a,1A svI he Znio ~,