The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-06-22
IN THE FATHERLAND
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHATS DOING IN OLD HOME
Summary of the Most important Hap
penlngs in the Land of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.

Readers.
The following reasoning by the
washington Post seems to stand on
rather straight legs: when Great
Britain, under orders in council, cap
lures our vessels loaded with meats,
with grain, with cotton, proceeding in
peaceful trade to ports of nations with
which we are in friendly relations, is
1t not time to assert our rights to free
dom of the seas and to demand the
release of those vessels instanter?
Germany has indicated a willingness
to safeguard neutral vessels, and Great
Britain's plea of not guilty in the
case of holding up food vessels for
the purpose of starving noncom-
batants should be accepted. provided
that country releases at once the car
goes Of grain, of meat, of cotton, which
she has captured under her arrogant
and unjust orders in council"
Now, here is sample of news"
often seen In the American dailies:
War bread has now been followed by
bread made from straw and finely
ground wood pulp, invented by Profess
sors Friedlander and Haberlandt. Pro-
essor Haberlandt in recent article in
the Kreuzzeitung, states that many
people who had become used to it de-
clared it not only highly nutritious,
but even delicious. The Haberlandt
bread is made from a dough contain
ing SO per cent line sawdust. The pro-
fessor's theory is that during winter
trees store up great quantity of
sugar, oils, fat and a small percentage
of albumen, and the young branches
and twigs are eminently fit for human
consumption.
Diplomatic circles have received in
timations from German sources that
the kaiser's intention to proclaim
free and independent Poland" are
about to be consummated. 1t was as
serted that the German war Office ex-
poets that Warsaw will be the next
prize of the German armies in the
East. AS soon as this is a fact, 1t was
stated, Germany will issue a procla-
nation recreating the ancient king.
dom OF Poland and including in it's ter
ritory all of German Poland, Austrian
Poland and the captured Russian sec
tons.
Crown Prince Wilhelm's daughter is
to have the whole of the crown
princes army as her godfathers. An
nouncement to this effect is made in
the Vossische Zeitung, which says:
eve are informed that, in addition to
other personages, the crown prince
and princess have chosen as godpar-
ents the whole of the Fifth army, of
which the crown prince is the head.
The choice shows afresh what beau
tiful relationship of confidence exists
between the leader and his army"
A telegram from Berlin says that
Clemens Delbruck, German minister
of the interior, has informed the Prus-
sian diet that the food problem may
be regarded as solved, and that there
even may be a large reserve against
the coming harvest year. An inven-
tory of the supplies of flour showed a
surplus of 6,965.929 double hundred
weights. Potato statistics as of May
Is were similarly favorable, the sup
ply being on level with that of
normal times.
For the second time since the begin
A.
dealers of Hamburg, Altoona and vicin-
ity have announced an increase in the
price not only of shoes, but of repair
ing footwear. The first raise came in
December. Leather, however, has so
increased in price since then that
dealers claim to be unabse to operate
at any profit at all unless they charge
still more.
The German agricultural council, a
semiofficial organization of farmers,
has been meeting in Berlin to consider
war plans for the harvest year 1916
Is. Resolutions were passed declar-
ing that the continuance of the eco
nomic and agricultural measures
adopted during the past nine months
will enable Germany easily to face the
future, no matter how long the war
may last.
Resolutions adopted unanimously by
committee of members of the ma
tional liberal party of Germany at
meeting held in Berlin demand that
of the territory Germany now holds in
the West she should retain what is
necessary to strengthen the defenses
in that quarter.
Gen. Alexander Linsingen, who COM
manded the forces which captured
Stryj, has been decorated by the or
der Pour lie Merite, while many other
officers active in the Galician cam
paign have been given a similar or
lesser honors.
A violent earthquake wrecked part
of the instruments in the great Mum
chen observatory and ratified windows
all over the city. Many persons fed
to the street in their night clothes
No reports of damage were received
by the police.
Prices Of meat on the cattle market