The Washington herald., 1917-11-03
WHAT Is GOING ON
In GERMANY
As Told by the Newspapers We
Get from the Teutonie Empires
and Neutral Nations.
Dealers scrapping
For Used COrks.

For Used Corks.
There's a famine in corls In Ger
many and the need is SO great. dealers
and others are in constant dispute over
their collection from empty bottles.
The Berlin Tagebiatt reports:
Much that was barely glanced at
before the war has now attained
very considerable value. Such is the
case with the drawn corl1s Of empty
wine bottles.
Today three groups are raging furi-
ously for the possession of these now
precious corks: cafe owners and watt
ers claim 10 have an original right to
them. while customers are collecting
all the corks they can at each visit
they pay TO their favorite resort.
AT Hamburg the rivalry led 10 q
regular battle between walters ana
clients. I'm which weapons much more
formidable than corIs were employed.
for after the fray the police removed
from the restauruant-one Of the best
and most exclusive in Hamburg-l5
ton. and with blood streaming down
their faces.
I'm Berlin. too. an unseeInly scene
occurred over the cork dispute in an
Inter den Linden cafe. il Is really
time that the authorities took a hand
in this matter"
Germans stiII Horc for
Success I'm Argentina.
The Frankfurter Zc,tung has iust
published in its financial columns a
letter from Buenos Aires. dated June
and received by roundabout ways"
II contains the following conclusions:
German trade in Argentina, all
though fighting against difficulties. has
hitherto won its way through courag-
eously aud honorably. For a moment
after the sinking Of that Argentine
sailing ship, the situation seemed to
be threatening. but the wise concilia-
toriness OF the German government
and the visible desire OF the Argentine
government to avoid a breach rapidly
disposed Of the danger. so the damage
WAS restricted TO a glazier's hill for a
few broken wiudow-panes. The arro-
CANT fashion Ia which the United
states treated the South American 70
publics, as II they were Honduras or
Haiti. and tried TO comma ndeer them
as satellites for the cause Of the allies.
WAS bound TO produce an effect con-
trary to what was intended and to
strengthen the independent attitude ot
Argentina. Thus il may bo hoped that
! Germany will soon restore 10 its nor
NAL condition and SIN further
strengthen her strong business posi-
tion in this part OF the world"
Truth IpperrIOst
In German Minds.
Herr Friedrich Naumann's weekly
paper, Die Hiifo. contains an article in
which an Evangelical naS:or. Ernst
Lehman. warns the Germans against
ignorance Of the fact that British pol
icy IS entirely interruptions. and
whatever an EnCliShr.lan SAYS or dos
. is determined bv British war aims.
Herr Lehman describes thus the con-
siant dangers for the innocent and
J honest Germans:
J because Of our intellectual Kultur.
, vc Germans never escape from what
i may call our religious appreciation or
, jh" spoken word. But for the cnglish-
/ man il Is simply matter or course
( that. whore his policy is concerned.
nothing whatever matters except it's
POLITICAL effect
substituting Paper
Tor Gotten Textiles.
J Lack o. cotton has forced the Gers
mans to substitute papcr. The Frank
! fort Gazette reports from Chemnitz:
General conditions in the trade are
considerably Improved owing chiefly
! n The increasing success which t. be-
{ iuC achieved with the production u
paper yarns and woven textures.
Looms and s1indles have in recent
months brought forth articles which a
year AGO were considered impossible @,
manufacture. Textile works are rot
1 only turning out fabrics Of flrst-rars =
/ puelity but have recently contrivcd II
produce from paper Yarns a class oc
woven goods for clothing purposes.
These goods have been fornd perfectly
I satisfactory and sell at hich prices IS
/ fast as they can no marketed. The
| excellent results which are being "b-
: tanned with paper textile are mag
! niticent tribute to German technical
/ skill-a triumuh which our enemies
may well envy rs"