The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11
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
Timely Items for the German
Readers.

pehtn9S IN the Land of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.
Lieut.. Gen. Count Helmuth Won
Moltl>e, chief of the supplementary
general staff of the German army,
died of apopeXy during service of
mourning in the reichstag for the late
Field Marshal Won Der Goltz Lieut..
of the late Field Marshal Won Moltke.
the great strategiSt, who directed the
victorious movements of the German
army when they achieved their me-
morable triumph in the Franco PruS-
sian war of 1870. At the time of his
uncle's death in 1891 he was major
but in 1899 he was made a general,
three years later lieutenant general
and in 1902 chief of the general staff,
In which last named office he has been
credited with having perfected the
splendid organization of the German
army. During the fall of 1914 an
nouncementS of Gen. Won Moltke'S ill
ness were followed by reports that he
had been superseded as chief of the
general staff. These, however, proved
unfOunded, but in December of that
year he retired from the post, his fail
ing health, it was said, preventing his
return to the front. He was succeed
ed by the present head of the general
staff, General Won Falkenhayn. In Jan
uary following he was appointed chief
of the supplementary general staff.
Grand Admiral Won TirpitZ, former
head of the German admiralty, in a
letter of thanks for the welcome re-
Gently accorded him at Freiburg, Ba-
den, declares that he had returned
from East Asia and America 10 years
ago CONVINCED England would use ex-
IRENE measures to prevent Germany's
further prosperous development. He
says Germany requires for its whole
economic life to be a sea factor; 9th
erWiSe it would cease to remain a
continental European power and slow
ly but surely decline.
Information alleged to have been OBJ
tanned from a deserter from the TWEEN
ty-eighth German infantry is to the eff
feet that the German soldiers fresh
meat ration has been cut down from
375 grams daily to 200 grams, which
is just half of the ration of fresh meat
received by the French soldiers. The
German canned meat ration is also al
legged to have been cut down to $50
grams, as compared with the go grams
of canned meat in the French ration.
War, which has worked so many
changes in the daily habits of the Ger
mans, has now conspired with war
weather to induce the Germans to
drink soft drinks. Bottles of lemon
sour, ginger ale, cream soda and 9th
er beverages included under the gen
eric name of pop in the United States
are beginning to make their appear
ance on shelves and bars formerly de-
voted to beer, and the thirsty people
are drinking them, not from choice,
but because they have to.
A proposal by the government to
increase postal and telegraphic rates
in order to add to it's revenue has
met with opposition from papers that
believe the public will defeat the OBJ
ject of the plan by writing fewer let
ters, but also from publications which
maintain that higher telegraph tolls
will put Germany at an increased dis
advantage in it's efforts to place it's
case before the neutral world
Many families in Germany go meat
less for days and weeks at time.
This is the declaration of neutral
business man of Dresden. It's as bad
as housekeeping to get meat. 1t up
sets our whole household economy as
we'll as our financial economy. It's a
dreadful operation and we don't go
through it oftener than we have to-
In the last 16 days we have had meat
thrice" he said.
No sign of the hate which is said
to inspire the lighting nations against
each other is visible when the wound
ed French and German soldiers who
have been sent to Switzerland for re-
cuperatiOn meet. The enemies who
fought each other with shot and shell
exchange hearty greetings and good
wishes and become friends on the neu-
trail soil.
special messenger carrying an au-
tograph letter from the king of Greece
to Kaiser Wilhelm has passed through
Lugano, Switzerland. The messenger
WAS accompanied by two Greek Off
GERS.
At a meeting of the Society of Eipc-
trical Engineers, DR.. Phillip Wechmann
explained in detail that today practi-
cally no copper is used in the German
electrical industries, because excellent
substitutes have been found. These will
undoubtedly remain in use after the
war, as they are much cheaper than
copper. The substitutes by which the
copper wires have been replaced are
mostly iron and zinc. The latter met