The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-10-12
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.

NCioSS TIC oCd inat VIII frOVe or
Great Interest to Many of Our Read.
ers.
Thoroughgoing courses in converse
tional Turkish are to be begun early
next month in Berlin, for the benefit
of those who appreciate the growing
need for this language in their BUSH
ness or social life. The German-Tur-
kish association is behind the move,
and will import or provide competent
Turkish teachers. A course, which
will be offered for SIS, will last three
months, and contain three hourly les
sons weekly. The need of Turkish is
increasingly felt, it is maintained.
Something in the nature of a counter
plan is the proposal to install at the
turkish university in STEAMBOAT ii
German professors, who. in Turkish,
are to give instruction in psychology,
pedagogy. the history of the oriental
languages, geography, geology, miner
alogy, botany, zoology, organic and in
organic chemistry, law economics,
Forty prominent figures in the pres
ent war, ranging from Kaiser Franz
Joseph Of Austria to the commandment
of German submarine, had been, up
to August 1. decorated with the order
pour lie merite, the highest military
service medal within the gift of the
German kaiser. Eight of those forty
have received the additional gold oak
leaves with which the order is some
times decorated as a mark of special
favor. The order is now It's years
old, but it has only been since 1910
that it has been conferred exclusively
for extraordinary service in war. King
Frederick William III in that year
stipulated that he would not loan"
it for any other cause, and three years
later created the oak leaf complement
to the order.
All accounts agree that the new
German war loan is an emphatic sue
cess. Dresden and vicinity subscribed
63,750,000, as compared with $54,000,-
600 for the March loan. Cassel SUBJ
scribed $25,0O0,O0O as compared with
$19,000,000 in March; the Dusseldorf
branch Of the Reichsbank, SILT, 100000
as against $70,000,000; the Dortmund
branch, with four adjacent Offices, $751;
100000 as against $S,000,000; the Ber-
lin municipal savings banks, $12,000.-
600 as against $9,000,444. To Illus
trate the heavy participation of small
subscribers, it is stated that nearly
$4,000 depositors of the Berlin savings
bank subscribed to the loan, as COM
pared with $4,000 in March.
The inspector of music in the pub
lie schools of Austria has requested
the minister Of education to bar in fu-
ture all the Italian expressions that
heretofore have been used in music
In addition the Music Pedagogical So
ciety Of Austria is endeavoring to in
terest the proper authorities and ban
ish "andante," allegro" and all the
other phrases which have an equiva-
lent in German but which have grown
into general use. Similar efforts are
also being made in Germany. though
as yet with little success.
The order pour lie merite recently
conferred on Grand Admiral Won Tir-
pitt is the fourth decoration which he
has received since the beginning of
the war. He has been given the iron
cross, first and second class, and the
swords to tie Hohenzollern house or
der. The only other active admiral to
possess the pour lie merite is Vice Adj
mfral Won Lans, who was decorated In
the summer of 1900 for his fight
against the Taku forts. Admiral Won
Usedom, retired, also has the order
The Geneva correspondent of the
Daily Express reported that the Ger
man admiralty admits the loss of 38
Zeppelins and Parseval airships
from the beginning of the war to Au-
gust 1, and declares that since that
date two Zeppelins and one Parseval
have been reported missing. The ma
jority of the airships were brought
down by the allies antiaircraft guns,
he reported.
The kaiser has sent telegram to
Doctor Helffrichal, imperial secretary
Of the treasury, congratulating him on
the success of the German war loan.
In second telegram, the kaiser de-
clared the result OF the war loan
equals a splendid victory on the bat
tIefield."
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg is a
poor man. He owns no
real estate and in time of peace he
lives in modest rented house in
Hanover.
Two weeks after the occupation of
Warsaw by the Teutonic allies the
first German newspaper printed in the
ancient capital of Poland made it's ap-
pearance in the streets. 1t is a four
page sheet, entitled 'Warshau
Deutsche Zeitung." 1t is published by
The owners of the "Grenzhoten" of
Berlin, who also have founded a Ger
man paper in LODI. The newspaper
large building on Miodawa
street and the plant is equipped with
six linotype machines and several
presses. Evidently the publishers in