The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-01-18
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.

Practically every Russian Judge in
Poland fed when Warsaw was evacu-
ated by the Russians and occupied by
the Germans. The invaders there
fore were confronted with peculiar
situation in their effort to re-estab-
lish order and the way the problem
has been solved has been largely
through the importation of German
judges, and the appointment of Ger
| man lawyers who had been wounded
in battle to judicial positions. AL
most every Polish judge or lawyer
who remained in the country de-
clined to fill the vacant positions for
fear of punishment by the Russians il
the latter should return. For CEN
turtles past Poland has had two kinds
OF judges, lay and professional. The
lay courts, handling small and unim-
portant matters, were scattered all
over the kingdom and their base rul-
ings were mainly on common sense
rather than technicalities of the law.
The professional judges were located
almost exclusively in cities. Since
the German occupation the number of
judges has at no time been entirely suf-
ticient to handle all cases and it has
been necessary to alter the existing
law in some particulars. The right
of appeal to higher court has been
restricted somewhat in order to pre-
vent congestion, and "a master in
chancery system" has been evolved to
tighten the work of higher justices.
Mrs. l.. M. Hall and Miss Gertrude
Hall Of Minneapolis, who have just re-
turned from a three-year stay in Ber-
lin, said in an interview: I'VE were
treated beautifully III Berlin all the
time" las were all other American
residents whom we know. The Ger
man people made absolutely no
change in their attitude toward us af-
ter the war started. Life in Berlin is
running along about as normally as
in Minneapolis-the and opera
halls are open and crowded, food is
plentiful and necessities are cheaper
than in New York. Only the larger
number of uniformed men on the
streets and the sight of occasional
WOuHuSu ToIllllu one OIL the war. Inc
newspapers seemed to us to be very
fair in giving reports of all sides in
the fighting. Il presume it is only
natural that one should get the war
spirit of the particular belligerent peo-
pie with which one happens to live.
| know we have been impressed with
the sincerity of the Germans in their
c1JSa and have haap ohio RI racnu-
nize weight in their reasoning on
many things that are matters OF diff
ference between Germany and Amer
lea"
Enormous sums of money have been
collected in Austria-Hungary for
charitable purposes during the war.
No reliable figures on the total OBJ
tanned are yet available, but estimates
place it as high as approximately $48,-
600, 900. Much of this money has
been applied already, but large sums
are still available for the needs of
those for whom it was collected. The
money has been raised in every man
ner the fertile brains Of social lead
ers and newspaper editors could de-
wise. Charity teas and suppers; the
sale of needlework done by society
people; benefit performances at the
theaters; the public sale of art OBJ
jects which people were willing to
donate, and hundred similar enter
prises have given keen competition to
the plain subscription and collection
campaigns waged by the newspapers.
At present an art exhibition sale is in
progress, from which both the admis-
sion fees and entire proceeds Of sale
will go to the fund for blind veterans.
1t is reported from German sources
that Kaiser Wilhelm has summoned
a great war council and a similar ma
val council to be held in Berlin on his
birthday, January 27. The war coun-
Gil will be attended by the crown
prince, Field Marshal Won Hinden-l
burg, Field Marshal Won Mackensen,
Field Marshal Limon Won Sanders,
Count Zeppelin, Crown Prince Rup-
precht of Bavaria, the Duke of Wurt-
temberg and other leading generals.l
Breslau firm of dealers in talk
ing machines has either decided to go
in for long credits or else it expects
an early peace. 1t adVertises it's in
struments and records on the follow
ing terms: During the war you pay
nothing Beginning four weeks after
war, you pay four marks monthly until
phonograph and records are paid for"
Germany has placed an actual en-
barge on shipments Of chemicals and
dyestuffs to the United States because
the nation considers America unneu-
trail, Elmer B. Murphy, president of a
Chicago importing chemical concern,
declared on his return from Germany
Doctor Hoenig, who is in charge of
foreign trade at the German foreign
office in Wilhelmstrasse, refused to
permit any exports, Murphy declared.
Germany has extended recognition
to the de facto government of Mexico
headed by Gen. Venustiano Carranza.
Germany's experiments with substi-
tutes for cotton in making gunpowder
have been so successful that for eight p