The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-17
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.

has been carefully guarded, explains
several peculiar operations of the
British government in the Argentine
Republic within the last two weeks.
British banks in South America were
first forbidden to handle gold ship
mentS from New York. Then British
insurance companies were prohibited
from insuring such gold shipments,
and finally British boats were forbid
den to carry the gold. The object of
the British government was to stop
the payment for the German wool, $4O,-
100000 worth of which has been
bought on the sleeps backs in Argen-
tina.
The text of manifesto issued by
the kaiser to the army and navy was
announced by the semiofficial news
agency as follows: "To my army and
navy: Together with the allied rulers,
/ had proposed TO our enemies to en-
ter peace negotiations. Our enemies
refused my proposal Their hunger
for power wants Germany'S deStruc-
ton. The war will continue. Before
God and humanity, to the hostile gov
ernments exclusively belongs the
heavy responsibility for all further
sacrifices which my will would have
spared you. Justly independent about
our enemies presumption, therefore,
and animated by the will to defend
our patrimony and secure happier
f,,t
enemies did not accept the under
standing offered by me and now with
Gods help our arms will force them
to IT."
The Leipzig museum is completing
a collection of notices of the great
German commanders, which is to be
published shortly. General Won Stein,
the new Prussian minister of war,
gives as his motto: ut is more i'm
portant than all else to bear quietly,
to act in silence, and to help unSeltish-
~" Admiral Scheer, commander or
the high seas fleet, says: 1.-THE war
aim of the German fleet Is the free
dom of the seas" Prince Henry OF
Prussia, wrote: For the right people
at the right time, the right man in the
right quarrel" General Won Woyrsch
says: Germany invincible-that is my
faith, firm as rock" Won Kissing,
Mackensen, Won Beseler and many
others quote Scripture to the effect
that they trust in God.
The death sentences of fOsr promi-
nent CzechS, who some time ago were
convicted of treason, have been COM
muted by Kaiser Karl to various terms
Of Imprisonment. DIR. Charles Kra-
MARI, Czech deputy who was charged
with trying to reconcile Russia and
Bohemia, has been reSentenced to 10
years Imprisonment DR.. Aloysius
Rasin is sentenced to 10 years; Vim
cenz Cervinka six years and Joseph
Zamasol six years at hard labor.
A discussion of the food problem in
the Berlin municipal council is de-
scribed in a dispatch from Berlin. At
the end of the discussion two resolu-
lions were adopted, the first intro
duced by the socialists demanding uni
form distribution of food and the
adoption of steps to prevent producers
from Withholding supplies. The second
resolution, offered by the liberals, con-
demned the existing restrictions on
the buying of supplies by towns.
The work of repairing the damage
In the Roumanian oil districts has adj
vanced so far that some works may
resume production within few
weeks. About 1000 carloads of pc
troleum are said to have been cap
tured at Campina and immense stores
at Constanza. The Standard refinery
at Ploechti is ready to resume work
at once, it ia stated, and the oiS wells
at Campina will be producing again In
about a week.
An official list of the quotations on
all securities listed on German stock
exchanges was published January LIST
for the first time since the exchanges
closed In 1914. The quotations, which
purposes, were mostly higher than be-
fore the war. Large gains appear es-
pecially In the securities Of iron, ma
chinery, chemicals, arms, explosives
and other companies working on war
contracts.
Macmillan Harden, editor of Die
Zukunft, delivered q speech at Berlin,
pleading for peace by agreement. AZ
ter referring to the enemy miscalcu-
lation of Germany's strength, Herr
Harden warned his hearers not to al
low themselves to be deceived about
the enemy's strength "Russia's re-
sources cannot be exhausted" he said,
'for, indeed, the war proceeds only ON
the edges of this world empire. Eng
lands hunger, moreover, is only
catchword for which there is no foun-
dation, while Frances lack of men can
be balanced by British troops"
The war office has given out the
correspondence between the American
ambassador Walter II. Page, and this
German and British governments,
showing that the protracted negotia
tons for the exchange of all interned
male civilians over forty-fye years,
have been concluded
The question whether the United
States intends TO remain neutral or