The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-10-26
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.

Tie opening of a chamber of the
heart and extracting a bullet is re-
ported by Professor Freund and Doc
tor Casperson in the current number
of the Muenchen Medical Weekly.
The patient was young soldier who
had recovered from a bullet wound
through the liver. Upon X-ray exami-
nation preceding his discharge from
the hospital foreign object was dis
cerned in the heart 1t moved syn
enormously with the hearts pulsa-
tons, and the physicians decided that
it was a shrapnel bullet. To prevent
possible dangerous complications it
was determined to remove the bullet.
The breast was opened, the pericar
dunn slit sufficiently to permit the
heart to be brought forward, quick
1ncision was made in the right ven
tricle and the bullet was Immediately
found and removed Much blood was
lost, but the bleeding stopped after
prompt stitching, and the patient
made complete recovery. The bull
&
taken a most erratic and eXtraordi-
nary course. 1t struck the soldier on
the left shoulder from above, as he
was storming forward, infiicting but
flesh wound. 1t passed down and
diagonally across the body, barely
marking the skin, was DETECTED by a
cartridge box and entered the liver
of oil vl, MT RI
the vena cava, one of the two trunk
veins that empty into the heart. The
blood stream conveyed it thence into
the right ventricle of the heart.
The war has opened the eyes of the
average German in regard to the vir-
tues of the German woman, whom he
hitherto was inclined to look upon as
rather inferior being whose sphere
was rightly defined by the kaiser as
being that of the three K's-Kirche,
Kinder, Kueche (church, children,
kitchen). Now the entire press is
singing the praise of the German wom-
an. and even a conservative; old-fash-
Toned paper like the Deutsche Tages-
zeitung says: 1.-THE degree of a ma
tons culture depends on the charac-
ter of it's women, and the woman of
Germany embodies in the truest form
the German spirit in all it's grandeur
and with all it's little weaknesses.
She has been the medium through
which all that is great and noble in
art, science and literature has been
given to European civilization
It is no exaggeration to say that
the allies have hurled thousands of
tons of metal in the shape of all kinds
of missiles known to modern warfare
against the Germans along the battle
lines in France and Belgium. In some
places the Germans were hurled back
with heavy losses. But two weeks
after this tremendous assault was
started the positions of the different
armies are practically the same as
they were before.
The world knows only too well by
this time that the Germans broke into
neutral territory when they entered
Belgium at the beginning of the war.
The allies never grew weary of de-
nouncing this step on the part of the
Germans. Now the allies are prac-
tically acting in similar manner, hav-
ing sent considerable forces into Greek
territory, which is supposed to be
about as neutral as Belgium. Thus
the two parties are pretty much in
the same boat with. regard to the vio-
lation Of treaties of neutrality.
In 1874 the German government
took $50 100000 in gold out of the
French indemnity of $1,000, 900, 600
and put it as a reserve into the julius
tower in Spandau For a period of
40 years the report read as follows:
Receipts, nothing. Expenditures.
nothing. Balance from previous year.
$90,000,o00. But this year the report
reads this way: Receipts, nothirg.
Expenditures, all.
The Daily Mail points out that the
success of Germany in establishing
connections with Turkey would mean
the solution of Germany's copper
problem, as virtually inexhaustible
supplies of the metal would be OBJ
tanned from the Arghana MAIDEN mine
in Asia Minor. This mine, although
hitherto much neglected, is one of the
richest mines in the world
Kaiser Wilhelm and Prince Joachim
were slightly injured in an automo-
bile accident, according to Berlin dis
patches. The imperial automobile was
wrecked. the dispatch said
The newspapers in Germany declare
that Germany will have nothing to
do with American banks parading
their German names and taking part
in the great loan to the allies. 1t is
barely possible that those banks will
find out that they have entered an I'M
profitable business.
The seismometer at Stuttgart OBJ
servatory has recorded strong earth
vibrations October II. The disturb
ance was central in Europe Earth
tremors were felt at Marienbad at the
same time.