The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-04-13
IN THE FATHERLAND
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHATS DOING I'm OLD HOME
Summary of the Most Important Hap
penings In the Land of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.

imeiy items tor the German
Readers.
Forty thousand letters, in more than
! forty languages and dialects, to be
read daily; secret messages written
in cipher with invisible inks to be dis
covered and puzzled out; all manner
OF questions from disturbed parents
about the whereabouts of their sons
to be answered.; thousands of COM
plants from Austrians regarding their
treatment in foreign detention camps
and prisons to be investigated.
These are some of the duties of the
censors-between two hundred and
three hundred of them-who form the
personnel of the censorship bureau Of
the Austrian empire which is located
in the war ministry and which has
been dubbed THE Organized Babel"
Both incoming and outgoing letters
nave to be scrutiniZed carefully.
The staff includes more than two
hundred voluntary workers, who are
divided into groups according to their
familiarity with languages and dia-
lects
AT the head of each group is re-
sponsible official, before whom must
be laid each suspicious letter, and
each missive containing useful infor-
nation.
More OF less innocent attempts to
deceive the censor, especially in noti-
Tying friends and relatives of their
exact location and condition, are made
repeatedly, particularly by the Rus
slams.
How the kaiser and his aids worked
clever scheme to throw assassins
off the track during the kaiser's stay
at Luxembourg became known a few
days later.
Three kaisers, dressed in blue and
wearing imperial capes, each with the
imperial mustache, drove about in
gray automobiles similar to the one
used by the emperor. during the kali
ser's stay in the city
1t developed after the emperor's de-
parture that the doubles were two of
ficers of the same build and height as
the kaiser, drafted for the purpose.
Kaiser Wilhelm has paid a secret
visit to Kaiser Franz Joseph to urge
him to cede Trentino and Trieste to
Italy as the price of the latters neu-
trality. The conference was held at
the time the kaiser was semi-official-
ly reported to be in consultation with
Mol HI
eastern front
Considerable uneasiness over the re-
suit of the conference pervades off,
cial circles, although the average ANS
trian, in spite of the governments
work of fortifying the frontier, takes
Il for granted that the Trentino tri-
angle already is coded.
Supported by both private and pub.
lie finances, a school of journalism"
Is to be inaugurated at the University
of Leipzig with the coming semester.
An autograph copy of Goethes COM
edy, 1.-THE Accomplices," written in his
youth, has been found among the eff
died in Dresden. The manuscript was
in packet that had not been opened
for 40 years. 1t had long been known
that there were in existence two
copies of this early comedy-which
was written in 1769-but Goethe re-
searchers had hunted vainly for 1t.
The owner left will giving the manu-
script to the Goethe Archive in Wei
mar.
The statement of the Reichsbank is
sued March % shows increases of
metal stocks, treasury certificates and
notes of other banks Of 81, 061 $50, gold,
$3,498,250, discounts $109, Tia, 900,
notes in circulation $1,711,0O0, deposits
S121, 100, $50. The statement shows a.
decrease in loans of $373,500.
According to official German reports
Lieutenant hammers and Major Stit-
Ter, German war prisoners, have been
executed by the French without rea-
son. The government press bureau
contrasted this alleged inhuman act
with the action of German officials in
permitting the wife of a wounded
French captain, a prisoner in Ger
many, to travel through Germany and
visit her husband.
In the first six months of the war,
the Iron Cross has been bestowed up
on 2,553 postal and telegraph officials
stationed in the field Out of a force
of about seventy thousand men in the
field postal and telegraph service, in
Guiding those stationed in conquered
territory, 1888 have been killed.
Attack on the German cruiser Ores
den, sunk March IA, by two British
battleships, was characterized "a vio-
lation of the neutrality Of South
American republic" in an official state
ment given out by the German govern
ment.
The absence of the German crown
prince from his headquarters in front
of Verdun was explained in private adj
vices. The stork is expected to visit
Crown Princess Cecelie within a few
days. The crown prince is at Berlin in
anticipation of the event
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