The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-07
OLD COUNTRY NEWS
BRIEF SUMMARY OF HAPPENINGS
FROM LAND OF THE
KAISER.
NOTES FROM GERMAN EMPIRE
Items About People and Affairs From
Across the Sea That VIII Prove of
Great Interest to Many of Our Read
ers.

Dr. Karl Helfferich, secretary of the
German imperial treasury, made two
days speech on the condition of the
nations finances.
He said that Germany's financial and
economic conditions are excellent COM
pared to that of the allies, but warned
the reichstag that this Is no time for
extravagant waste. He admitted that
German currency has deprecated but
formerly talked loudly of that fact, are
now silent because Of the financial sit
uation in their own capitals.
This new war loan,' he said in con-
clusion, will contribute to victory and
peace giving us guarantees against ag
gression and the activity of our enc
mics, at the same time leading our
enemies back from the curse Of mis-
led passions and artificially cultivated
Authorizations and bringing quiet and
liberty to bleeding nations. Finally it
will bring that peace which the whole
of Europe needs in order to maintain
place in the world and fulfill her
mission
Gottlieb Won Jagow, the German for
eign minister, declined to reply in the
reichstag to the question Of Dr.. Karl
Liebknecht, one of the Socialist lead
ers, whether the government was dis
posed to abandon it's idea of the annex
alton of conquered territory and enter
into immediate peace pourparlers II
the ether belligerent powers were SIM
ilarly inclined. Il think I have the
support of majority of the house"
Herr Won Jagow is quoted as having
said, ''if I decline to reply as the mo-
ment is unsuitable
This statement was received with
great applause.
Doctor Liebknecht attempted to
speak but was prevented from doing
so by continued loud applause, shouts
of stop" and laughter. During the
demonstration the president Of the
chamber was repeatedly obliged to
use his bell to obtain order.
There is an unexpected abundance
of potatoes in Germany, according to
statement by Secretary of the Inte-
rior Delbrueck. The explanation, he
said, was the great economy practiced
because Of the underestimate of the
supply at the beginning of the war.
The imperial bureau of potato sup
ply has distributed more than 10000
900 hundredweight to municipalities,
starch factories and distillers.
Herr Delbrueck stated also that
there was balance of 100000 dou-
BILE hundredweight from the previous
grain crop to which must be added
probably 50,000,000 double hundred
weight from the new crop.
The prospects for a supply Of meat
are satisfactory and normal guam
tity of sugar has been obtained for
the coming year.
The school authorities of Westphalia
have notified the school children Of the
district that they can perform a patri-
otto duty during vacation time by col
lecting beech nuts, from which 1t Is
possible to extract table oil that is
said to be good substitute for the
foreign oils-particularly Italian-that
always have been imported. There
still exist in the province establish
ments for extracting the oil from the
nuts, for earlier there was a consider
able industry in this line in Westpha-
lia The authorities Of the Seventh
Army corps are SO impressed with
the suggestion Of the school authori-
ties that they are furthering the prop
osition as far as possible.
The supreme court of Japan has
ruled that, as a result Of the war be-
tween Japan and Germany, the inter
national convention for the protection
of industrial property is suspended in
it's operation. The practical effect Of
the decision is that trademark rights,
patent rights and other industrial de-
sign rights held by German subjects or
German companies previous to the
opening of the war are to be consid-
cred as extinguished or suspended in
their effect for the time being.
Four families in Schleswig- Holstein
can claim with full right to have done
their duty to the fatherland. One fam
lily in Anslet has ten sons in the field;
a widow in Segeberg has nine sons
and two son-in-laws at the front; nine
sons of a beer dealer in Schoenberg
are with the army, as are eight sons
and two sons-in-law of a family in
Hellschen. The total is 40 soldiers for
the four families.
An editorial in the Tageblatt is as
follows:
Germany shows signs of strength
rather than of weakness. Our enc
mics believe Germany's economic life
| will surely COLLAPSE after tha war