The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
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.
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as the purchase price of raw silk for
the German silk manufacturers will
remain at home if the governments
experiments in breeding silkworms in
the German climate are as successful
as recent circular promises. Former
experiments in silkworm breeding
have failed because it was impossible
to acclimatize the mulberry tree. 1t
has been discovered that silkworms
thrive on comfrey an herb abundant
IN Germany. Moreover, the worms
fed on the new diet produce stout
er, more elastic and more glossy silk
than those raised on mulberry. The
only doubt in the minds of the gov
eminent experts is whether the worms
will degenerate when imported into
Germany.
Distinguished authorities on politi-
cal economy are ventilating in Berlin
papers the question how to recover
Germany's lost ground in the worlds
markets after the wa. In the Tage-
blatt, Dr. Anton Paine of the Oriental
seminary advocates the establishment
of German high school for foreign
knowledge, which, he asserts, will be
an absolute necessity. After the war
young men will find it most difficult
to gain knowledge in foreign coun-
try, because they will be confronted
at every step by the hatred, suspicion
and ill will Of vanquished nations. Doc
tor Paine urges that work for estab-
fishing the high school begin immedi-
ately, that teachers be selected and
that matter from the libraries and eco
nomic and industrial collections of
each country be obtained.
In the Vosssche Zeitung, Hermann
Pachnicke, member of the reichstag,
writes of the recent German-Austrian
convention at Salzburg to consider
closer industrial relations between the
two empires. He reaches the conclu-
sion that zollverein is not immedi-
ately desirable because of technical
reasons. Other means should, he says,
There will probably be common rates
Of duty on foreign imports. Prob
ably Turkey and Bulgaria will also
wish to be included in an arrangement
Of this kind, says Herr Pachnicke, Sc
curing for the industry of the central
powers the natural products of friend
ly nations and a wide field of inter-
change
Austrian soldiers will not suffer
from cold weather if the army adopts
the new electrically heated garments
which have just been invented by the
professor of electrology at innsbruck
university. The essential feature OF
the professors invention, according
to the Austrian newspaper, is a meth
cd of weaving electric heating threads
into soldiers pants and coats and then
connecting the threads with a battery
or supply wire at a distance from
100 yards to a quarter of a mile. 1t
is asserted that the current can be
regulated so that any number OF SOL
diers in the trenches can be kept warm
simultaneously.
The annual meeting of the Ameri-
can chamber of commerce in Berlin
was devoted chiefly to a discussion
of the PRESENT trade conditions be-
tween Germany and the United States.
David Wolff, president Of the chamber,
who was reelected, described in his
annual reports the efforts, in a num-
Der of cases successfully, which the
association has made to get American
owned goods from Germany through
the British blockade.
Japan's heart is not with England in
the world crisis, declares Kiheiji lwaya
of Tokyo, former University of
Pennsylvania student. Japan would
rather be fighting the English than
the Germans, he says. Only to an
obnoxious treaty which the Japanese
are too proud to break is Japan's part
in the great war due. Japan has no
grievances against Germany. The
German people are the most popular
of all foreigners in Japan"
In spite of campaign of false
hoods against Germany, commerce be-
tween Germany and the United States
will flourish after the war;" Professor
Riesser of Mannheim, privy councillor,
declared. Professor Riesser predict
ed that commercial relations with all
foreign countries, even with Ger
many's emies, will be re-established
Immediately after the war
Cheered by an immense crowd,
Kaiser Wilhelm left Vienna December
4. Archduke Charles, heir to the Aus
trian throne, saw the kaiser off at the
station.
From highest German sources come
definite assurance that Germany will
not protest against the return to Bel
gium Of Brand Whitlock 1t was
said no reason exists for considering
Whitlock Objectionable. Both the
White House and the state depart
ment reiterated Whitlock would re-
turn shortly.
That many foods in Germany are
still cheaper than in New York is
proved by an advertisement Of the de-
partment store of Hermann Tietz in
the Berliner Tageblatt. The hrm Of