The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-06-27
IN THE FATHERLAND
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHAT'S DOING IN OLD HOME
Summary OF the Most Important Hap
penngs In the Land of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.

| IuTlUST lTSuSleT VI art treas
ures to the United States, in the opin-
ion of Prof. Wilhelm Won Bode gem
| eral director of the Royal museums at
Berlin. Prof Won Bode gives several
reasons; that the war is making Il
| great increase in the wealth of many
| Americans; and that the breaking up
Of several of the great private collec-
| lions in America, including that of
the late j. T. Morgan, and the acquisi-
ton of many of their choicest pictures
by public art museums, will tend
strongly to develop the demand for
! good art works. Professor Bode de-
| clareS that in this way the public col
lections of New York, Boston, Wash
ington and Chicago, together with doz-
ems of cities not yet identified with art
| in an international sense, will become
fully equal to those of European cit
les. This fresh demand for art works
in the United States, Professor Bode
says, will strike Europe at a time when
people will be forced to sell in order
| to get money to pay their debts Many
| fine old pictures now owned by pri-
vate collectors in Europe, and particu-
larry in England, will in consequence
| find their way across the Atlantic, he
thinks.
| Kaiser Wilhelm has sent congratula-
| tory messages to Grand Admiral Won
| Tirptz, the former minister of the
navy, and Grand Admiral Won Rooster,
the former grand admiral of the Ger
man fleet. The message to Admiral
Won Tirpitz reads: after visiting my,
fleet, which returned VIGOROUSLY from
Il heavy battle, | feel / must convey,
to you my personal thanks for what
you have performed in my service. Our
ships and arms upheld themselves
brilliantly in the battle in the North
sea. 1t is also for you day of glory"
| That to Admiral Won Rooster reads:
From the fleet flagship, which has
returned from fresh laurels, | send
to you, the old chief of the fleet my
imperial salutations. You laid the,
foundation for the careful employment
of all arms and the tactical train
ing Of the fleet" The emperor has
promoted Vice Admiral Scheer, COM
mander of the German battle fleet to
be admiral. Vice Admiral Hyper has
been awarded the order Pour lie
Merte. s.45e.,.
A mother who gives birth to twins,
or to triplets in Germany is entitled,
not only to the nursing money" and
the weekly war assistance" which the
government provides for its needy
women, but may collect the prescribed
sum in duplicate or triplicate accord
| ing to the number of children born,
according to a ruling published by the
| imperial insurance bureau. The de-
| cision was the outcome Of the suit of
a Berlin woman, who, giving birth to
| twins, was refused nursing money and
the weekly war allowance for more
than one child. The insurance branch
| bureau in her district held that the
law permitted only one payment re-
CARELESS of the number of children
born. The imperial bureau, which
controls all the municipal branches
in the empire, holds that it is Of the
utmost Importance for every mother
to be nOurshed in the very best pos
! sible way; and that two or three chill
dren require more nOuriShment from
the mother than one.
| Street car lines in many parts of
| Germany hope in the near future to be
able to increase their tariffs by about
| 80 per cent in order to meet increased
costs. At q congress of street car
| men held recently in Berlin reSOlu-
| tons were unanimously adopted in
which it was pointed out that the pres
ent universal tariff Of 10 pfennigs
! (21a cents) was adopted in the nine
ties, whereas even before the war the
expenses of most companies had risen
80 per cent and probably will rise even
more after the war. A decided de-
terioration of all lines Is to be ex-
pected, the resolutions point out, I'M
less they are allowed to raise prices
to 10 pfennigs (3A cents).
Latest available statistics do not in
dictate that race suicide is on the in
crease in Berlin. February figures
show that five mothers, ranging in age
from forty to forty-fve years, gave
birth respectively to their sixteenth,
seventeenth, eighteenth nineteenth and
twentieth child. Three women had
their thirteenth, eight their twelfth,
five their eleventh and seven their
tenth. The records tell of the births
of IA pair of twins in February.
In reply to the congratulations of
his aunt, the Princess Maria Louise,
dowager duchess Of Baden, Kaiser Will
telm teIegraphed as follows: Hearty
thanks for your congratulations. How
gloriously God helped our brave blue
boys! Praise and thanks tc him for
his gracious assistance. I am deeply
moved with the proud joy that my Gre
alton, which has been the work of my
life, has proved with Gods help to
be such a good, sharp weapon. The
young German fleet tore down the
nimbus of invincibility Of the British
sea power. May God help us further"
dispatch from Berlin says that DR..
Karl Liebknecht, the socialist leader,
who has been in custody since May
/, when he was arrested In cOnnec-