The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-17


traitor OF the Banque Centrale Anver-
soise has given out information that it
is to be absorbed by the Deutsche
bank, its head being a director of the
latter institution.
Inc exclusion of German war toys
Is what a movement started by the
countess OF Stanford hopes to accom-
pllsh in Great Britain The move
ment is also an effort to provide a
trade at which MANNED soldiers can
work when the war is over. Hereto
lore Great Britain has bought about
6,50O,O00 worth of foreign toys, which
have been almost all of German make
Inc scheme provides for the financing
OF the industry by four per cent loans.
In common with London, Paris and
Petrograd, Leipzig has felt the effects
OF the war on the fur trade with ex-
traordinary keenness. The business
In this line is practically at a stand
still, and few If any firms are adding
anything to their already overlarge
stocks. In previous years it has been
just at this time that they have be-
gun to load up. The heavy loss which
the war has caused the fur trade Is
indicated by the fact that the price,
last year, for perfect black fox
pelt, $3.50, has dropped this year to
500.
The executive committee of the So
cialist party of Germany and the ex-
ecutive committee of the Socialists of
the reichstag have issued a statement
urging the necessity for the party
unity at the present. 1t is a reply to
an anonymous hand sheet recently cir
culated which demanded that the So
cialists abandon the party truce and
open sharp offensive against the
government.
The German government has begun
a systematic gathering of figures and
statistics concerning existing supplies
of copper in every shape. 1t had been
known previously that, in addition to
the increase in copper production, the
supplies surpassed 100000 tons, suffi-
cient to meet war requirements for
ten years. A large proportion of this
total is available without the adop-
ton Of special measures. Other por-
lions of it will become available by
the substitution of other metal. With
the idea of securing complete copper
data, to the end that systematic prepa-
rations for the future be made effec-
tive, the government has decided to
investigate carefully what amount of
copper might be found in utensils, in
struments, boilers and roofs made of
this metal
Germany possesses invisible aero
planes, according to the Kolnische
Zeitung. The wings are made of a
clear transparent material called cell
Ion, which is the invention of Ger
man engineer named Knaubel. Cellon,
which is manufactured from celluIose
and acetic acid, is tough, pliable and
noninfammable, and is used instead of
canvas. A machine covered with cell
Ion is said to be virtually invisible
above an altitude of 5000 feet.
Although the main German and
British fleets have not been matched
in battle, the ending of the first year
of the war finds that Germany has dis
tinguished herself at sea, says Capt.
l. Persius in a naval review prepared
for the Associated Press. Captain
Persius, formerly an officer of the Ger
man navy, is a recognized authority
on German naval affairs and is naval
expert Of the Berliner Tageblatt He
states that Germany's policy has been
to attempt to weaken her chief oppo-
nent at sea by using submarines and
mines to a point where there will be
some prospect of success of an attack
on the main British fleet
The German mines, since the war
started, have continued to supply 40
per cent of their usual annual guam
tity to the Netherlands, but England
has declined to permit the export of
steam coal in any large quantity.
Manufacturing concerns and munich
palities turned to America for supplies,
but the freight rates from the United
States to Dutch ports were so prohibi-
tive-the minimum reaching eight dol
lars per ton more than the rate from
Germany-that nobody would buy
Kaiser Franz Joseph has conferred
the military order for distinguished
service of the first class on Archduke
Eugene, commanding the Austro-H I'M
gar1an troops operating against Italy.
The American consul at Dresden,
reporting to the department of COM
merce, said that demand for insur-
ance against bombs had been created
by aeroplane attacks upon cities near
the battle lines. AS a result, a Ger
man insurance company has estab-
lished what, the consul says, may
properly be called aerial insurance
German newspapers mention in the |
latest lists of casualties the deaths of
three direct descendants Of General
Bluecher, who commanded the Prus-
SLAMS in the battle of Waterloo They |
are I,jaut Col Roinrioh Won Rluoobor