The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-25
IN THE FATHERLAND
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE
WHATS DOING IN OLD HOME.
summary OF the Mos. important Hap
pentngs IN the Land of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the car
Readers.

For several weeks there has heen,
friction between the authorities of va
riouS large German cities and the CEN
trail purchasing bureau. The munich
palitieS claim the right to buy their
asking permission of the central bu-
reau. There was an outburst in the
Hanover city council, several members
OF which accused the central bureau of
boycotting the city, which was unable
to procure butter, sausage and hams
Notwithstanding the fact that some
places in the vicinity were sufficiently
supplied. 1t was argued that it was
impossible for one bureau to control all
municipalities. Cologne, Dresden.
Chemnitz and other cities already are
purchasing supplies independently,
having representatives in Holland for
that purpose. AS potatoes are scarce
in Germany while the supply of rye is
sufficient Adolph Won Batocki, head
OF the food regulation board, has de-
cided it will not be necessary to mix
potato meal in war bread. A census,
of rubber stocks has revealed large
quantities in the frontier districts, sup
posed to have been struggled into the.
country. The central bureau has seized
this rubber paying five marks a kilo-
gram for it. The bureau for the pro-
lection of German mercantile credits
abroad has issued lists of certified
German claims on foreign debtors and
admitted foreign claims on German
firms. These lists are free to approved
neutral firms.
German and Austrian aspirations for
a closer economic union have received
a setback at the hands of the Buda-
pest chamber of commerce. In en-
phatically-Worded resolutions that
body has declared that the new Aus
gleich with Austria shall be for only
ten years and further has expressed,
its conviction that Hungary must be
of Austria in customs mat
terS, and have her own tariffs. The,
AuSgleich is the working agreement
between Austria and Hungary for car
rying on the joint affairs of the dual
Originating in the compro-
mise of 1867 the legal term of the!
agreement was fixed at ten years, but
since the movement began for a closer
economic union between Germany and
Austria-Hungary it has been urged
that the Ausgleich, which expires next
year, be extended to 20 or % years so,
as to make possible some of the read
justments that would not be possible.
in q shorter period. The leaders in
the movement for the economic union,
who have been meeting in Berlin,
Vienna, Budapest, Munchen, Dresden
and Prage have considered the extern
sion of the Ausgleich to be a most es-
Sential matter, and the action of the
Budapest chamber of commerce in op-
position to it has caused much irrita-
ton among those who hope that the
new economic alliance will be per-
fected.
According to Sparlasse, the organ of
the German savings banks, new saw
fngs accounts during the second year
of the war have increased in Germany
as never before during times of peace.
Statistics from the big cities and the
Industrial regions alone indicate an in
crease of 2S8000 accounts and a total
OF 6,280,000 accounts. The excess sof
deposits over Withdrawals is 2,500,0O0,-
900 marks. The total increase III the
capital of savings banks is 3,250000,000
marks. The Vossische Zeitung cap
tons its publication of these Stats
tics, Good prospects for next war
loan"
The annual report of the Krupp
works at Essen says the number of
women employed by Krupps has risen
more than tenfoId. In August, 1914,
just before the war broke out, the
pay roll included 36,S8O
men and only 1,414 women. At the
end of April last these figures had
risen to 55,949 men and 1902 women.
Bertha Krupp, the Cannon Queen" is
credited with having received an in
than $25,00O,0OO.
Numerous scientists, induStrialists
and representatives nf commerce ana
agriculture have fogmed a German
national committee dnder the chair
Of Prince vsn Wedel, says the
Koelnische Zeitung, with the aim of
awakening a uniAsrm understanding
of the German peCole for an honorable
conclusion of pea:e which shall guar
antee secured failure empire" In do
ing this, says the KoeJnische Zeitung,
all one sidedness is to be avoided.
A Venice dispatch says Prince Maxi
milan HOhenberg, son Of the murdered
Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the Aus
trian throne, has founded the Youths
Association of Prayer for a Speedy
and Favorable Peace. The association
already has $4,000 musters. Prince
Macmillan Hohenberg is fourteen
years old. He is the son of the
Princess Sophie Hohenberg, the NOR
ganatic wife of Archduke Ferdinand.
who was assassinated with her hus-
band at Serajevo. The assassination
precipitated the present European
conflict.
Statements that children in Ger
many are starving because of lack Of