The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-23
IN THE FATHERLAND
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHAT'S DOING I'm OLD HOME
Summary Of the Most important Hap
penInos In the Land Of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.


State, Dr.. Alfred F. M. Zimmerman,
discussing the swarm of peace ru-
mors which had to be denied officially
in the German press recently
eve have seen nothing" be con-
tinued, Sin the change of cabinet in
France or in Brands or Asquith's re-
cent speeches which can be interpreted
| as showing a desire for peace by the
French and British governments.
| There have been no proposals Of peace
to u.s. On the contrary, our enemies
seem determined to continue the war.
Il repeat what have said previous
| ly, that Germany is a peace-loving ma
ton, and that we should study care
fully any peace proposals made to u.s.,
but until these are made we shall con-
tinue the war, for we are confident Of
victory 1t is not for us to talk of
peace when we are winning. 1t is for
our enemies to do so"
Behind the curtain of war, German
science has made discoveries in med
| icine in the benefits of which the CIV
ilized world will share. The new line
| of work has been done by German
| chemists in the use of animal char
coal for medical purposes. This SUBJ
stance will absorb and remove not only
poisons from the intestinal canal, but
the bacteria of typhus fever and chol-
era. The poisons can be neutralized
within very short time. Cholera was
the first disease to be considered;
then came typhus and dysentery, when
| it was possible to exclude the injurious
microbes from the system. AS the
| charcoal becomes infected with the
bacteria, or with the poisons which it
absorbs, such aperients as Glauber
salts and Karlsbad salts, are used.
1t also appears that animal charcoal
| is applicable in surgery, as it will stop
suppuration, which destroys the It's
sues.
A systematic campaign of opposition
to the censor is being waged by the
newspapers of Austria and Hungary.
A memorandum to the prime minister,
signed by publishers and editors,
points out that the newspapers existed
during the first year of the war under
milder censorship and succeeded in
serving the country worthily and pa
triotically. us it not then unjust,
they ask, that an increasing number
of restrictions should be applied daily?
The newspapers are tired of being al
lowed to speak only of city authorities
and fraudulent army contractors, and
seek the restoration of the small free
dom which they enjoyed in pre-war
times"
Since the war, it is stated, 81 Hun
garian newspapers, published by
Czechs, Slovaks, Slavs and Roumani.
ans have been suppressed
The enormous hunting reservations
of the car in the forests of Poland
and Lithuania furnish great sport to
the officers and men of the German
army. These primeval forests are
now inhabited by thousands of deer,
but very little of this game will be
left, if peace does not come soon. The
on the firing line arrange large hunt
ing parties almost every day. One of
these parties recently bagged 43 stays
in a few hours. Many of the soldiers
also go hunting and as they are all
sharpshooters, the deer are fast being
exterminated
The Socialist party issued a mani
festo against increases in the prices of
food. The manifesto says that pro-
visions are ample and that the ad-
vances are due to usurious practice
1t begins:
THE rise in the prices of foodstuffs
has become unbearable. The prices
of all important provisions and other
articles of daily necessity, such as fuel,
clothing and footwear, have reached
an exorbitant height. With anxious
fear the people of the laboring class
and up to the circles of the middle
classes look forward to approaching
winter. Already bitter need rules in
many families"
Gar FOTOluduu anu the sultan nave
exchanged congratulations concerning
the establishment of direct commu-
nication between Germany and the
near east, according to the Frankfurter
Zeitung The kaiser was quoted as re-
ferring to the event as of far-reaching
historic Importance.
The German reichstag will meet on
November go.
Berlin Food Prices.
Roast beef, 35 cents a pound
Roast veal. 40 cents a pound
Veal outlets. SO cents pound.
Pork, 40 cents pound.
Ham, IS cents a pound
Bacon, 1851 cents a pound.
Butter, 1851 cents pound.
Eggs, cents each.
Approximately 100000 for the re-
lief of German, Austrian and Hun
garian widows and orphans was raised
in ST. Louis in one week at a war re-
lief bazaar.