The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
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 for the German
Readers.

Kaiser Wilhelm, according to a dis
patch from Berlin, has sent to a con-
gratulatory telegram from the Prus-
sian cabinet, the following reply:
MY warmest thanks to the ministry
Of state for it's inspiring words by
which it renewed on the day of the
five hundredth anniversary of the
reign of my house over Brandenburg
its vow of loyalty. In reviewing half
thousand years of Brandenburg-
Prussian history, Gods guidance APP
pears to have been wonderful. Across
the depths and the heights, my house
has been raised from the electoral hat
to the imperial crown and from a
small border state to the center of
an empire whose strength and pow
er have been so brilliantly proved to
friend and foe in the present war OF
the nations, the greatest of all times"
The parcel post service to America
has been discontinued until further
notice. No official reason for the dis
continuance was given.
Last April several thousand parcel
post packages mailed from Germany
to the United States via Switzerland
were returned to the senders by the
Swiss postal authorities because the
British and French governments had
given notification that parcels adj
| dressed to German citizens in the
United States would be seized when
ever they would be found on ship
| board. Parcels sent from Germany
to Spain and Portugal have met a
similar fate in France
On April the German postal off,
Gals suspended the parcel post service
to various parts of South America.
German newspapers publish the
schedule prepared by the German fed
eral council in pursuance of the deci-
sion to restrict consumption of meat.
This schedule, as forwarded by Reu-
| ter's Amsterdam correspondent, is as
| follows: Mondays and Thursdays
Restaurants shall offer no meat, fish,
| fowl or dishes cooked in lard, bacon
or drippings. Tuesdays and Fridays
| Butchers shall sell no raw or cooked
meats. Saturdays-Pork shall not be
Sold Thus far the federal council has
| placed no restrictions on cooking of
meats in homes.
There was a brisk movement on the
| stock exchange Of Berlin the last
week, under the influence of the
| splendid achievements of the armies
Of the central powers and their al
lies in Serbia. There was especial de-
mand for German oil shares, Anato-
liam and Oriental railways, Turkish to-
| bacco and textile shares, as well as
| for German colonial shipping securi-
! ties, American rails and Argentine
consols. The money market was easy
despite the huge installments paid on
| the war loan.
A special commission on new fibers
recently appointed by the minister Of
war to find substitutes for jute and
hemp, which products have been ex-
Guided from the German market by the
station at Hamburg, where it will I'M
dertake experiments on native plants,
especially nettles and hop vines. Net
ties grow in the German forests in
great quantities and successful meth
cd of making them available for fibers
would be great boon to the country.
It was stated that Germany had
asked the American commission for
relief in Belgium to undertake similar
relief measures in Poland
1.-THE reports in the foreign newspa-
pers that Prince Won Buelow has been
intrusted with the preparation of
peace negotiations are absolutely in
correct" says the Overseas News
agency. Prince Won Buelow, who is
now in Switzerland, has in no way
taken steps toward the starting of
peace negotiations, nor has he been
charged with that task"
The Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant
gives German losses from October IL
to October 20 at 57,424 in dead and
wounded and missing
The total Prussian losses are given
as 2,021, 078.
The Courant figures the total losses
to the central powers at 100000.
The Dresden Nachrichten reports
that a member Of the Red Cross named
Hellinger, made a prisoner of war by
the French, was shot by French Off
Ger because he refused to betray the
position of the German staff.
The government has made further
regulations governing the sale price of
potatoes. 1t is provided that cult
vators must sell at figure from SO
to 76 cents per hundred pounds The
price to consumers must be at an adj
vance of no more than 80 cents on the
producers price.
The German steel output during
September was 1,174,350 tons, COM
pared with 1,156,702 tons in August.
The daily output was 45,167 tons In
September as against 44,566 tons In
August.
Kaiser Wilhelm's audience with the