The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-05-04
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 Will Prove of
Great Interest to Many of Our Read
ers


Germany:
Bread is IL cents more pound
than in ordinary times and contains
~ per cent OF potato flour
Butter is usually 35 cents a pound
at this time of the year. Now it costs
371a cents in large lots and 43% cents
in small quantities.
Eggs-No material increase in
price for the best quality, but the
cheaper brands, for which the less
prosperous people used to pay two
cents apiece, now cost three cents
apiece. Germany used to import great
quantities of the cheaper cooking eggs
from Italy, but Italy, with food prob
lens of her own on her mind, is ceas,
ing to export eggs.
Beef-No increase in price.
Poultry-No increase in price.
Pork Including the pork products
of bacon and sausage) shows an in
crease of at least one-sixth in price.
The quality of bacon that used to cost
80 cents pound now costs five cents
more a pound.
One of the puzzling problems with
which the German authorities in
charge of prisoners of war have had
to deal is the failure of many of these
prisoners to notify their relatives of
their whereabouts. AS a consequence
it is being discovered constantly that
men, particularly Englishmen. who
are prisoners of war or are in hos
pitfalls, have long been given up as
dead To minimize the difficulty the
Doeberitz authorities have printed
quantities of post cards which bear in
big, black type the words: my ad-
dress is - Gefangenenlager Doeber-
itz Deutschland (Prison Camp, Doeber'
itz, Germany Every prisoner is en-
cOuraged to write home so that his
people may know his whereabouts.
Field Marshal Baron holman Won
Der GoltZ has been appointed com.
mander in chief of the first Turkish
army Field Marshal Won Der Goltz
in the early part of the war was sent
by Germany to Constantinople to as
sist in directing the Turkish army,
which he had reconstructed in earlier
years.
The German government, according
to it's calculation of the amount of
wheat and rye on hand knows that
there is sufficient quantity to feed the
entire population, including the pris-
oners of war, for about a year. They
assert that it will not be necessary to
use any of the crop of 1915 until after
January 1, 1915, and should a very
good harvest be the result this sum.
mer, then the supply of bread would
be more than sufficient for some time
to come.
Commander Otto Weddigen of the
German submarine, U-29, sunk by the
British, will be immortalized as one of
Germany's great war heroes. Princess
Bismarck, widow of the iron chancel-
lor's" son, has placed on Bismarck's
tomb laurel wreath bearing the in
scription: ITO the hero Weddigen."
The hints regarding temporary and
local defeats of the German armies on
both fronts which have been permit
ted to appear from time to time in
the official communicates have made
absolutely no impression upon the
German people, who are, if possible,
even more convinced than ever of
ultimate victory. With justifiable
pride the press points to the solidarity
of the entire nation.
The Cologne correspondent of the
Amsterdam Tijd, discussing peace
conditions, says:
There is no serious thought in
competent circles in Germany of re-
tanning Belgium. Within a few weeks
some surprising statements on this
matter may be expected
"The leaders of German opinion are
now agreed that the aim of the war
will have been reached as soon as
Germany's national existence is guar
anteed and her colonies secured"
i he UGpOSILS VI Iuc Savings DduhS
have largely increased. In Essen, for
instance. where the Kruppp works are
located, the savings banks are doing
a greater business today than they
ever did before in the history of that
town. Everybody is busy in Essen, and
workmen are paid in many instances
more than 100 per cent more than
they were before hostilities were com
menced between Germany and the
allied nations.
Americans just arriving in Berlin:
in particular, comment upon the
friendliness of their reception The
Germans have been especially courte
Gus, they declare, on learning of their
nationality.
Kaiser Wilhelm has ordered the |
principal German generals and also |
some of the Austrian commanders to |
meet him in grand conference to dis
cuss the coming summer campaign. |
The meeting, it is said, will be held |
within the next few days, either at |
Cologne or Berlin.
The Berlin bourse has been operat- |
ing under the influence of peace ru-
mors starting from an apparently un-