The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-05-11
IN The FATHERLAND
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHAT'S DOING In OLD HOME
Summary of the Most Important Hap
penlngs in the Land of the Kaiser
Readers.

lets, Germany is prepared. Wall street
is and can be with the allies, but Ger
many will remain unfrightened. The
German people have oversubscribed
two war loans. In my opinion, they
stand ready to oversubscribe a third
should a third prove necessary" That
| is the opinion of financial Germany as
expressed by DR.. Karl Helfferich, sec
| rotary of the imperial treasury. 1t
reflects the official view of the rela-
| lions of finance to the war The
money already subscribed" he con-
tinued, will last until October or
| November. If the war is continued
and more money is needed, third
loan will be fioated. And it will be
also oversubscribed Let me tell you
why he said. There are two rea-
sons. German money stays in Ger
many, because everything the army
needs is made in Germany"
! So large has become the list of pro-
motions in the Prussian army that the
Military Weekly, a publication de-
voted exclusively to the interests of
officers and soldiers, has found it nee
essary to issue tree times a
week. Thousands of promotions are
recorded, taking up many columns OF
space. The German army, especially
in war time, has an unusually large
set Of positions beneath the ranks
of commissioned officers in it's various
| of hra
and gallantry reported are sending pri-
Yates upward into the numerous non
commissioned ranks, and ''non-coms"
into the commissioned ranks. The Mil
itary Weekly also contains list en-
titled Our Heroes" giving the names
and regiments of those who have
fallen, the official German and Aus
trian reports and resume of the
important news of the day.
There have been so many contradic-
tory rumors of the state of the food
supply in Vienna that it is interesting
to find in the latest issue of the
Neue' Wiener Journal a verbatim re-
port of a speech on that subject by
the burgomaster of Vienna, Doctor
Weiskirchner. He says, in part: I'VE
shall not starve, but we must arrange
our consumption of food that we can
last out till next harvest. / can say
confidently that the municipality has
done everything that lies in it's pow
er. Anticipating the coming state OF
affairs, l began buying in supplies OF
flour as early as last August. In that
month alone l bought 100000 worth
of foodstuffs, and since then we have
expended 100000 in the same way
The golden jubilee of the en-
trance of Grand Admiral Won Tirpitz
into the German navy was made the
occasion of great rejoicing by the Ger.
man people. Just before the admiral
left the admiralty Offices in Berlin,
April "a, he was presented with the
Iron Cross of the first class in be-
half of the emperor. At the same
time a telegram from the kaiser was
read, which conferred on the admiral
a hereditary title and also proclaimed
the minister of marine and originator
of the "underseas submarine block
ade" as the savior of the empire.
Dr. Karl Liebknecht, has been mus
tered into the army as member OF
a landsturm regiment and assigned to
service in Elsass. This action was
supposed to have been due to his ac
ton in the reichstag in voting against
the adoption of the budget. Doctor
Leibknecht is perhaps the most wide
ly known socialist in Germany. He
frequently has protested vigorously
against the war and was reputed in
December last to be the leader of q
secret German peace movement,
The demand for new capital on the
part of commercial and manufactur.
ing companies has not been so great.
ly restricted by the war as had been
supposed. In the March quarter new
and old joint stock and limited LA
bi1ity companies absorbed $21, 700, 900
of new capital, as compared with $780,
100000 for the corresponding quarter
of 1914. In March alone 10 new com
panies were organized, or nearly twice
as many as in November
The unframed landsturm of Austria
between eighteen and fifty will from
now on be liable for military service
according to announcement by the war
office. The announcement states that
this action will be taken lowing to the
possibility that the war may last a
long time"
On account of the scarcity of leath-
er, the Germans are said to be equip
| ping their new troops with knapsacks
made of impregnated linen 1t is also
said that they are making use of large
numbers of rifles and bayonets cap
| tured from the Belgian armies.
There is ample flour and grain In
| Germany today to feed not only the
! army and navy, but the entire popula-
ton, including the thousands of pris-
oners of war and other people interned
throughout the empire for at least one
| year to come.
Travellers from the interior of Aus
tria bring reports of increasing un-
rest resulting from the insufficiency
of the bread allowance which, although