The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-05-02
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE
WHAT'S DOING IN OLD HOME
Summary OF the Most Important Hap
penings in the Land of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.

German aerOplane corps. INN elmann
| shares with Lieutenant Boelke the dis
tinction of having brought down Is
enemy planes. One of his defeated ad-
versaries, writing from a prison camp
| came up behind him in a Fokker and
began to fire before he knew he was
| pursued. The English airman was
| shot many times and his petrol tank
| was punctured by bullets from Immel-
mann's rapid-tire gun Finally he was
forced to alight on German soil. AS
soon as lmmelmann saw his enemy
| defeated. he made a landing to offer
assistance. The British airman writes:
lmmelmann is a gentleman, and if we
ever capture him l hope he will be
| treated as such"
Conscription for women is the latest
idea of German feminists. German
| women have accomplished an amaz-
| ms amount of work for the Father
| land in the present war, but the fem
| mist leaders assert that too much of
the work has been dilettante, ill-or-
| ganlzed and ill-directed. What is
| wanted is compulsory service for wom-
! en-not military-but home service.
! Each woman. they say, should spend
| one year in the latter teens learning
| work which should be useful to the
| state. At the end of that time she
| could return to the bosom of her fam
| lily.
| 1t appears that one effect of the war
| Will be to break the taboo against So
cialists in executive positions of city
| governments. Just now the city of
Charlottenburg has installed a social
| list as an unpaid member of the coun-
| Gil, or executive authority of the city.
| FrankfOrt-on-the-Ma has gone still
| further by electing Doctor Lindemann
of Stuttgart, a former member Of the
reichstag, to a paid position on it's gov
erning board as a specialist in munich
pal government.
1t is believed in London that hence
forth German submarines will hunt as
rule in company with Zeppelins
which will act as scouts, and not only
communicate with U-boat commanders
as to the bearings of any merchant
| men or warships, but steer the U-boat
to its mark. Close communication be-
tween the submarine and the airship
will be maintained by means of a new
wireless apparatus, and it will be I'M
necessary for the submarine to offer
any target by rising to the surface
SalOniki today is practically a Brit
ish city. In the streets, cafes and res
taurants nothing but the English Ian
guage is heard. The French troops
have mostly been sent to the outskirts
and to the frontier in the north. Among
the population there is still a good
deal of friendly feeling for the French
but the British are generally disliked
and even hated on account of their
overbearing ways and the unconcealed
contempt for the Greeks
howitzers, with ammunition, which
were ordered in Germany will arrive
in Switzerland during the next few
days" says the Overseas News agency.
German industry not only is able to
meet the enormous wants of the Ger
man army but also to supply neutral
countries"
The Vienna Tageblatt says that the
Budapest chemist, Doctor Just, who
was the inventor of the Wolfram lamp,
has discovered an electric cell, with
iron and carbon electrodes, whose cleo
trolite is composed of an organic sub
stance, which renews it's vigor com
pletely from the oxygen of the air in
short time.
The most profitable investments
that Americans can make today, &C
cording TO bankers in tOsAh with for
elgn markets, are in German owned
American securities, which can be
bought at relatively low prices in Ger
many, Holland or Switzerland, and left
there for delivery after the war.
The municipal authorities of Frank
fort-on-the-Main have taken new step
to aid the suffering poor. They are now
selling baked potatoes on the streets.
The potatoes are baked in small ovens
which are to be seen on many street
corners in the thickly populated sec
tions and the business districts.
Caps are fast replacing hats in Wen
ma Vienna, alone among the great
cities of Europe, has hitherto been con
spicuous from the fact that all it's men
and boys insisted on wearing hats,
disdaining the cheap and comfortable
cap that is popular among the work
ing classes in London, Berlin and Paris.
Austria has always possessed large
hat industry and hats were almost as
cheap as caps, but the war has caused
a shortage of wool and cheap felt hats
have doubled in price. The result is
an increasing number of converts to
the cap.
Before the war Bavaria imported on
an average a million hogs a year, and
now imports none. Yet during all the
months of the conflict she has steadily
supplied her neighboring and allied