The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-04-04
OLD COUNTRY NEWS
BRIEF SUMMARY OF HAPPENINGS
FROM LAND OF THE
KAISER.
NOTES FROM GERMAN EMPIRE
items About People and Affairs From
Across the Sea That viii Prove of
Great Interest to Many of Our Read.
ers.

SES.
The family of August Bebel, the ia
nous Socialist leader who died in 1913,
is doomed to determination through
the death of his only grandson, which
has just ACQUIRED at Jena. This young
man, who was the son of Bebels
daughter, an only child, was born at
Zurich and was greatly beloved by Be
bel. Soon after the outbreak of the
war he had to go into the army
through the mobilization Of the Swiss
troops He was not able to stand the
hardships Of the service, however, and
soon developed symptoms Of consump-
ton. Instead of going to a health re-
sort, as advised by his physicians, he
went last October to Jena to begin his
studies at the university. He left no
sister, and his mother is widow.
An Amsterdam dispatch says the
municipal authorities in Germany have
been instructed to take a census of all
neutral foreigners who have lived in
each city for more than five years.
Male foreigners who have lived I'M
interruptedly for five years in Ger
many will be considered as having
lost their previous citizenship. and
will be regarded as Germans and
therefore liable to military service.
These men will be enrolled in the
army, but will not be sent to the front.
They will be put to work in offices so
as to release men of the landsturm,
who will thus be able to take their
places in the fighting line. 1t is said
that there are about 10000 foreigners
OF fighting age in Germany.
Submarines of the allies are follow
ing the practice abandoned by the
Austro-Germans of attacking unarmed
passenger ships without warning &C
cording to an announcement in Ber
lin. 1t was stated at the embassy
that a hostile submarine fired tOrpe-'
does, without the slightest warning,
at the Austrian passenger steamer
Daniel Emo, February 13, and at the
Austrian steamer Zagreb, February %,
in the Adriatic off Cape Planka, near
Spalato, Dalmatia The statement
added that these steamers, like all
merchantmen, wers
unarmed, and escaped only by skill
full maneuvering
German newspapers often attack the
women because, after a year and a
half of constant warfare, during which
they have lost husbands, brothers and
sons, while themselves forced to en-
dure untold hardships, they are show
ing signs of what is termed weak
ness. 1T is most humiliating," says
the Muenchener Neueste Nachrichten,
ito see that, after Is months of war,
not yet learned to understand what
wartime conditions mean"
Kaiser Wilhelm has written a letter
to Grand Admiral Won Tirpitz, express
ing his regret at the admirals resig-
nation and thanking him for the ex-
cellent services he had rendered to the
country during his long career as Gre
ator and organizer Of the German
navy.
Roasted coffee may be bought only
in half-pound lots and unroasted cof-
fee may not be sold at retail. In Ber-
lin coffee prices have been advancing
for some time. 1t is believed house
wives have laid in considerable stocks,
anticipating limitation orders Visi-
BILE supply is notably reduced.
Notwithstanding the huge expenses
of the war, the Asiatic Historical as
ISOLATION of Berlin has donated $4,000
for geographical exploration and study
in the Chinese province of Shansi.
Cyrus H. Mccormick, president of
the International Harvester company,
may soon be asked to go to Berlin
as successor to Ambassador James w.
Gerard, who is on leave of absence.
A section of the upper wall of the
underground railway now in course
of construction in Berlin collapsed and
the tunnel was flooded. Three work
men are missing.
No export of bar iron is now per-
mitied from Germany below a price
of $3.50 gold per 100 Kilograms, which
means an increase of more than 60
per cent on the running contracts.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-HoIlweg
whose regard for neutral rights caused
tho resignation of Grand Admiral Won
Tirpitz. received a vote of confidence
from the Bavarian ministry.
One of the most notable charities
since the beginning of the war is the
gift of approximately s5000.000 by
Frau Irma Krail, who died recently,
for the education of the common peo-
pie. Frau krail, wealthy, enhanced
her fortune with each of her five mar
riages. Her fourth husband, Baron
Strahlendorff, was widely known
through Austria Hungary.
Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg out
lined his policy to the Bavarian min
istry. He declared that Germany must
hold out for a victorious peace.
The retirement of Admiral Won Tir-