The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-01-02
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHAT'S DOING IN OLD HOME
Summary of the Most important Hap
peninss in the Land Of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.


Lieutenant Won Forstner. who was
the cause of the troubles. was sen
fenced to 40 days imprisonment and
deprived Of his commission as an OH
Ger. He was charged with assaulting
A lame shoemaker In his testimony,
Won Forstner showed that he had act
I'd ia the way he did under semi-com-
pulsion. He had been threatened with
Impeachment before d court of honor
II he showed the slightest reluctance
against using his weapons He testl-
fed that the officers had received re-
peated orders from army headquarters
and from the regimental commander
70 adopt an aggressive attitude, TO
stand no nonsense from civilians, and
10 permit no insults or abuse. Lieuten-
ant Won Forstner said he acted under
prevailing German assumption that an
officer was irretrieyably dishonored
If he permitted himself to receive a
blow He said that the lame shoe
maker might have gotten loose from
the men and might have struck him
before the soldiers could overpower
him again. and then Lieutenant Won
Forstuer would nave been disgraced.
Colonel Won Reuter-, commander of the
Ninety-ninth regiment, said be had H.
structed his officers to act as agrees
sively as possible A Prussian officer,
he continued, must not permit disre'
spect to be shown him. He had threat
ened, he said, to bring them before a
court of honor If they did not follow his
instructions and he had advised Lieu
tenant Won Forstner TO use both his
saber and his revolver if necessary.
Former Chancellor Yon Buelow has
written a book ia which he says
During the Spanish-American war q
portion of German public opinion dis.
played strong sympathy for Spain and
this was not agreeable to the United
States This feeling reached its eli.
max In February. 1899, so that IL
seemed well to emphasize the rela-
tionship by blood and race OF the two
nations in order TO bring about a
better feeling What | said at that
period in the reichstag in this connec-
ton seems to have been proved since,
namely: From the point of view OF
sensible policy there Is no reason why
Germany and the United States
should not be on the best OF terms.
] do not see any point where German
and American interests clash, nor in
the future do / see any point where
the lines OF our development should
cross each other Ia an inlmical way.
We can say Il calmly-in no other
land in the last century has America
found better understanding or moro
Just recognition than in Germany"
The accession OF King Ludwig II. to
the Bavarian throne is considered a
poor financial bargain, as the new
state OF affairs compels the kingdom
10 grant considerable allowances to
Under the former regime these al,
lowances were not permissible, az
they were granted only to princes OF
the blood, in which class the relatives
OF a mere regent could not be consid-
cred. Crown Prince Ruprecht receives
sS5. 600; Prince Karl, $43,500; Prince
Franz, $4,000, and the five princesses.
Aldegonde, Hildegarde, Wiltrude,
Helmtrude and Gondelinde, $4,000
each The children OF the new king,
therefore, draw about 100000 from
the treasury, while the king, who
drew only $4,000 as prince regent,
will now draw the entire civil list.
amounting to $3.50 900. The Bava-
rian Socialists have already seized on
these figures to charge the king and
his family with pillaging the Bava-
varian treasury.
A report that the kaiser is In finan-
cial straits Is partially confirmed by
the statement that he contemplates
selling one more of his many cas-
ties The expenditures of the kaiser
this year have surpassed those of
any previous year OF his reign. II is
roughly estimated that the marriage
of his daughter, the entertainment OF
the car. King George. and their large
suites, and the expense of the guests
who attended the jubilee of the mon
arch, cost him more than LOCO, 900.
He made such a fuss three years ago
about his civil list being incompatible
with the dignity of the ruler of Ger
many that an increase of 100000 a
year was made, making the total in
come Of $4,SO0,000 In addition, the
empire act OF grace gives him $780,
600 a year more.
Private exhibition by German manu-
facturers at the San Francisco Pana-
ma-Pacific exposition, as proposed by
Manager Balm OF the Hamburg-Amer-
lean Steamship company has been
abandoned. The committee formed
by BALM met and dissolved. because.
It was said. OF the governments OPP
position, as demonstrated in the fate
or the reichstag's bill for a $500, 900
appropriation. The committee re
solved to continue its information bu-
reau for the benefit of private exhib-
itors. but otherwise the participation
Idea was abandoned.
The Canadian-Pacihc railway is go
ing to sue the government OF Austria
on account OF its attempt to check
emigration to Canada
A fishing vessel picked up the
wreck Of the marine air cruiser L l.,
which was wrecked about three
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