The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-04-25

penings in the Land of The Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.
Premier Sturmer of Russia is about
to change his name. He will adopt
his wife's-Panin. Sturmer is a Ger
man name; Panin is Russian. Many
Russian mobiles with German names
have been sent to Siberia because they
refused to change them. The former
procurator of the holy synod, Sabler,
recently made a similar change. So
did the councillor of the empire, Neid-
hardt. The anti-German wave through
out Russia is not purely a war senti-
ment. The war just gave it chance
to manifest itself 1t is a popular re-
action against German tutelage
which has lasted for generations and
is generally held to have been largely
responsible for the governments Sc
verify. Barons Won Drummer, Stem
pei and Won Rennenkampf lost gov
eminent posts not long ago because
change. Baron Hahn and Count Fab
len, who were marshals of nobility re-
spectively at Mitau and another Cour-
land district, have been asked to re-
sign their positions and leave for dis
trlcts, not yet in a state of siege.
Baron Won Mirbach, marshal of nobil-
ity at Dvinsk, Mayor Pfeiffer of the
same place, Count Kayserling, Barons
Meyendorf and Won Heyking, who held
high posts under the car, and many
other noblemen of the Baltic provinces
have been sent to Siberia for the du-
ration of the war. All business,
either wholly or partly owned by Ger
mans, and, in some cases by Russians
of German descent, has been closed,
compulsorily wound up or placed un-
der government control.
German efficiency is nowhere more
remarkably demonstrated than in car
ing for the wreckage of the war, ac-
cOrding to Mary d. McF'adden, former
Minneapolis newspaper woman. who
has spent six months in the warning
countries. There will not be a men,
dicant in Germany after the war;" said
Miss McFadden. IF there is enough
of a man left to think, even if all his
arms and legs are gone, he will be
given something useful to do The
government us behind all this work.
Every German is sure they are GO
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little feeling against their enemies,
none at all except against the Eng
lish. The soldiers themselves have
no enmity. AS one soldier said who
returned from the trenches near Os-
tend to Berlin, what's the use of
hating or loving, when we're dead men
tomorrow" There is an Irish bri.
gade in Germany, organized and armed,
but not fighting. 1t is waiting for the
chance to fight for free Ireland. /
saw one company, and was told vari-
Gus stories about it, but l think the
admitted. / talked with Sir Roger
Easement, the originator of it. He
is remarkable man, an idealist whose
life is being spent in the cause of the
independence of Ireland. Robert Mon
tieth is commandment of this bri-
gade."
The conference held at Leipzig for
the purpose of establishing a joint
committee for the promotion of tour
ist and other foreign traffic decided
to form permanent committee on
which the Germans are to be repre-
scented by eight, the Austrians by five
and the Hungarians by three men,
bers. The work of the committee is
to attend to the problem OF foreigners
visiting the central empires after war,
to establish a permanent institu-
ton which should direct foreign
tourists to Germany and Austria-Hun-
gary.
President Kaempf of the reichstag
sent Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
the following message on the fiftieth
anniversary of his entrance into the
German military service: I'm the
name of the reichstag, / express here
with on the occasion of your excel
lency's fiftieth military jubilee the
heartiest congratulations and the graf
itude Of the nation to the ingenious
strategist and glorious liberator of
Eastern Prussia
Vice Admiral Dick, director Of the
shipyards department Of the German
navy, has been retired on pension.
He was regarded as one of the close
advisers of Admiral Won Tirpitz.
Lieutenant Boelke has shot down Is
French and British aeroplanes. In
recognition of his brilliant work the
kaiser sent him a personal letter of
congratulation.
The total sum subscribed to the
fourth German war loan is 1912, 00O,-
600 marks. subscriptions by persons
on the fighting front and in foreign
are not contained in this
amount. The number Of subscriptions
was 5,279,646, which proves that sue
cess was obtained by a truly popular
in which all classes par
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