The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-08
IN THE FATHERLAND
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.

Timely Items for the German
Readers.
The overthrow of Chancellor Won
Bethmann-Hollweg, champion of a con-
ciliatory policy toward the United
States and the unloosing of German
submarines within three months is
predicted by Won Tirpitz supporters
IN Germany, unless President Wilson
Members of the conservative party
and those favoring annexation of ter
rltory conquered by Germany joined
IN the forecast. They said that the
opinion of America will be disre-
garded. But despite this political
drlve against the man who stood out
against break with the United States
IN the LuSitania crisis, Americans in
germany believe HolIweg
Will emerge triumphant They feel
certain that if the chancellor appealed
to the public for a decision, he would
be supported.
capt. Paul Koenig, master of the
Deutschland, was presented with a
handsome silver loving cup for him
self and crew, by Madame Christine
Langanhan, a former grand opera
singer, who is the wife of Hogo Bou-
cock of New York. Mr.. and Mrs. Bou-
COCK motored to Baltimore and made
the presentation at a downtown hotel.
The cup is mounted on an ebony base
ana beneath an American flag there
appears this inscription: presented
TO the conqueror of English prestige
on the seas and to the commander
OF the first merchant submarine. the
Deutschland, Capt Paul Koenig. and
crew IN commemoration and apprecia-
ton of their services, by Christine
Langanhan, royal opera singer, July
10, 1876
Six seamen from the German sub
marine merchantmen Deutschland
went from Baltimore to Washington
and were entertained at the White
House and the navy department. A
White House attache showed them
through the East, Blue and Red rooms,
the cabinet rooms and President Will
sons private office. One of the young
SterS asked permission to sit in the
presidents chair at the head of the
cabinet table, and he did so while his
comrades grinned their appreciation.
All were much interested in the war
maps showing the positions of the
armies in Europe and they pointed
with pride to the names of their home
towns in Germany.
The German military administration
has allowed the revival of the Polish
School society, which the Russians
had prohibited in the year 1907 The
society will now organize branches in
all the chief towns of Poland and will
open primary, intermediate and high
schools at many places. Libraries
will be established lecture courses
for educational purposes instituted and
pedagogical and other scientific peri
odicals published by the society.
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Ambassador James w. Gerard of the
United States has transmitted to the
foreign office the latest British Sug-
gestiOns regarding arrangements for
feeding the population of Poland. The
ambassador is frankly discouraged
over the inability of the two countries
to reach an agreement. Gerard eX-
poets to visit a few more prison camps
before going to Copenhagen for a brief
vacation.
The kaiser at present is about the
busiest man in the German empire
and the one about whom, in the Ger
man empire, one hears least If the
war was of the kaiser's making, as
his enemies say, the kaiser is doing
his full imperial share of the work
if it was not of his making, as his own
people say, he is doing lions share
to lead them VIGOROUSLY out Of it.
Heine's sausage and meat curing
factory in Halberstadt, one of the larg-
est concerns OF the kind in Germany,
and recently engaged in carrying out
army contracts, was burned down late
in June.
The early potatoes suffered some
what from rain. So far as the late
fall potatoes are concerned, which
comprise the bulk of the German pota-
to crop, they appear to be in ex-
cellent condition.
Prince Gebhardt Bluecher Won VAIL
staff, grandson of first and famous
Prince Bluecher, whose arrival turned
the tide in the battle of Waterloo, has
died as a result of a fall from his
horse near Breslau.
A. J. Hemphill of New York, treas
urer of the commission for relief in
Belgium, has returned from a trip of
inspection which covered thoroughly
the operations of the commission in
Belgium and northern France, and he
SAYS: 81 am convinced that the relief
supplies sent into Belgium reach, in
their entirety, the Belgian people.
Except local incidents always rene
died, / heard of no instance whatever