The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-29

Chancellor Won Bethman-Hollweg an
nOunced that after the ending of the
war Germany would cooperate in an
endeavOr to find a practical means for
procuring a lasting peace by means of
an international league. The attitude
of Germany was made known before
the main committee of the reichstag.
The SemiOficial Overseas News
agency gave out the following account
of the address: 1.-The chancellor re-
piled to the speech made by Lord Grey,
British foreign secretary, to foreign
newspaper men in which he said the
origin of the present war must inf1u
ence peace conditions and that Ger
many would be entitled to ask for guar
antics against future attacks if the
present war really were forced upon
Germany. Of course Lord Grey at
once added that Germany'S interpreta-
ton of the origin of the war was in
correct and that the war was not
forced upon Germany, but was forced
by Germany upon Europe. The action
which made the war unavoidable" he
said. "was the Russian mobilization
ordered on the night of July 3O-31,
1914. Russia, England France and the
whole world knew this step made 1t
impossible for us to wait any longer
and that this step was synonymous
with q declaration of war"
The assertion of Chancellor Won
Bethman-HOllweg in his address to the
reichstag main committee, that as long
ago as 1912 Russia had made plans for
war on Germany was supplemented by
the semiofficial NOrddeutsche Allge-
meme Zeitung, which published what
IS given as the text Of the Russian gov
ernment's general order, to which the
chancellor referred. In his address,
DR.. Won Bethman-Hollweg said at the
time the war began there was still
valid an order ''from the highest
place" that proclamation of mobili-
cation would be, at the same time, a
proclamation of war against Germany.
The Balkan express, which runs be-
tween Constantinople and Berlin
dashed at full speed into a party of
women section hands in a suburb of
Berlin. Nineteen women were killed
There was a heavy fog at the time
The women had stepped out of the way
of a west-bound train and did not OBJ
serve the approach of the Balkan ex-
press.
Germany has informed the American
embassy in Berlin that the sinking of
the British steamer Marina, October
%, with the loss of lives of six Amer
leans, will be thoroughly Investigated
as soon as submarines operating on
that date have reported.
The Austrian censorship, especially
regarding internal politics and food
problems, will be materially Ioosened
soon Premier Won Koerber is known
as an ardent advocate of the freedom
of the press.
Prince Henry of Bavaria, nephew OF
King Louis, died from wounds received
on a accommodating trip November T.
Prince Henry was thirty-two years old
and a major in the Bavarian guards
He was reported to have been wounded
on the battlefield last June. The prince
was unmarried.
Charges that the German govern
ment is rounding up and sending to I'm.
known destinations practically all the
ablebodied men in occupied Belgium
are made by Baron Beyens, Belgian
foreign minister. Baron BeyenS says:
1.-THE German authorities affirm that
the unemployed must not fall charge
upon public charities and that work
whereupon they are employed has moth
ing to do with the war;
Count de Tarnow-Tarnowski, Aus.
trian minister to Sofia, has been APP
pointed ambassador to Washington.