Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1915 — IS NOW CALLED KAISERBERG [ARTICLE]

IS NOW CALLED KAISERBERG

Germans Give New Name to Town off Czenstochowa In Russian Poland. Petrograd.—You will look in vain for the city of Kaiserberg on the map of Russian Poland, and little will you suspect that this name stands with the Germans for the ancient city of Czenstochowa, but Kaiserberg it is at present, and the Inhabitants are forced, under threat of severe penalties, to speak of it as such. This is another proof of the Germans’ tactful policy toward the Poles whom the invaders are supposed to win over to their side, for Czenstochowa to the Poles is what Mecca is to the Mussulmans, and no greater insult to the national pride and faith could be imagined than the renaming of the ancient fortress. “Kaiserberg now, Kaisergrab (kaiser’s grave) in a few weeks hence," is the prophecy of the refugees from the invaded part of Russian Poland.