The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-10
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.

and fodder. The order provides that
severe punishment shall be dealt deal.
ers who unduly increase prices or
withhold articles OF food for the pur-
pose OF artificially raising prices.
The German empire is divided into
four districts instead of 80 depart
ments, where prices vary, according to
special local conditions.
| Corn prices remain about the same
| figure as heretofore. The price of rye
is fixed at $55 per ton for the Berlin
district, at $5375 for the eastern dis
trict, and $57 so for the western dis
| trict. The price of wheat is fixed at
$40 above that of rye. The regula-
tons provide for biweekly increase
of Is or so cents per ton.
Barley to be used as fodder and oats
are placed at a uniform price per ton
throughout the empire. These prices
remain below the average of last
years figures. The regulations also
provide for the creation of an i'm
perial fodder board whose duties shall
| be to supply all classes of cattle,
swine and fowl raisers with oats, bar
! ley and molasses substitutes.
| Fresh rumors of an impending Yep
| pelin attack on London came from the
German air base at FriedrichshavenI
and with them reports of remarkable,
new invention to shield the big diri-
gibles from attack.
The next fleet of Zeppelins that
bombards London will be unseen and
unheard by the terror-stricken people
if the latest Austro-G German expert
ments prove successful.
The silent engine, with which Count
Zeppelin has been experimenting for
two months, has been installed on
several of his airships. making it pos
| sible for them to move silently through
the clouds
AS a further safeguard to insure
their dirigibles from attack, the Ger
mans have been experimenting with
huge Illuminating bombs which. when
dropped from the zeppelins. throw out
curtains of brilliant light, obscuringI
them from sigfH.
Austrian aviators tried out the new,
dazzling bombs in the last air raid
on Venice They proved surprisingly
| successful but the Austrian aircraft
were not equipped with silent motors
and their presence over the city was
revealed to Italian birdmen.
Carl w. Alderman says Germany
looks back upon her accomplishments
of the first year of the war with salts
faction. The Germans believe the
events of the last twelve months have
demonstrated to the world that the
Teutons are the mightiest race of all
history No other country could have
withstood the combination of world
powers which Germany has kept at
bay since last August, declare the
Germans, and no other country has
ever SO deeply stirred the imagination
of the world
Germany has won her claim to a
place in the sun. The German empire
has added brilliant chapters to the
history of Teutonic might begun undec
| the Hohenzollerns of the kingdom Of
Prussia. The kaiser himself has
earned for himself the title of William
the Great, which posterity surely will
bestow upon him. These are the dom
inant beliefs of the German people at
the close of the first year of the war"
!
Thousands of tons of Russian wheat
have got into Germany through the
Roumanian river ports Galatz and
Braila.
| EuOru 10 pnff nrdo -,,snSty
ing here states that the activity of
the Dutch port surpasses all belief.
Scores of steamers arrive. daily with
| foodstuffs of all kinds, which are i'm
mediately placed in German freight
cars constantly lined up along the
docks and sent to Germany via Win
| terswyk, while constant stream Of
| heavily-laden barges goes up the
Rhine. Practically all these steamers
are allowed to enter the Dutch port
because they have already been exam
ined at Hull or other British ports.
Enormous quantities of animal fat
arrive from Argentina, which is made
into margarine in Holland and sent to
Germany as Dutch produce.
Five thousand dollars each for the
| first ten dirigible balloons destroyed
is the prize offered to the British air
men by Baron Michelham. The only
proviso is that the airships must be
destroyed while in the air.
An official report on labor condi-
! tons in Germany during 1914 shows
| that the total number of strikes in
| 1914 after the outbreak of the war
was "a, involving only LOO workers
! They were all settled promptly and
| not strike was under way at the end
of the year.
The report recently published that
| the Hamburg-American steamship
| company had failed in consequence of
heavy losses sustained during the war,
was denied here by the semiofficial
Wolff News agency.
Mrs. Harriet Boyce of San Francis
co and daughter, Margaret Whose
stage name Is Adele Boyer, have
| been pardoned by the Lindau authori-
| ties for insulting German officers.
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