BERLIN TRAM EPISODE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 3 January 1917, Page 6

BERLIN TRAM EPISODE

<, A writer in the "Journal," a neutral recently travelling in Germany, vouches for this story of Gorman organisation. Female labour is employed in Germany, on a scale and in di- , rections undreamt of in Britain. "Berlin women have shown'" themselves apt for all trades. I was rid- , ing back from my hotel in Berlin in a tramcav. A soldier got in, who was evidently on leave from the front. A stout, imposing, well-dressed .woman' at onco opened conversation with him. The soldier spoke'freely and rather'bitterly of the hardships he had undergono, of the rigorous discipline from -which he had suffored, and of the heavy losses outside Verdun, where ho had just ' come from. The good lady listened sympathetically, interposing kindly rc- ' marks. Eventually she got down, but . told the tramway conductress to koep tho car waiting. She then went to tho . nearest policeman, and ordered him to take the soldier in charge. Thopolice- • man, who was an elderly, good-natured looking fellow, demurred, and the other > passengers in the tram' protested, whereupon the good lady brought out • from a reticule her card, showing that . she was an ihspecfress of the. secret 1 police. Tlie policeman obeyed, and took the too-outspoken soldier into custody." ' ' '