BERLIN TRAM EPISODE.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1917, Page 2

BERLIN TRAM EPISODE.

A writer in "the “Journal,” a neutral recently travelling in Germany on a goals and in directions undreamt of in Britain. Berlin women have shown themrelvea apt for all trades. I was riding back from my hotel in Berlin in a tramcar. A soldier got in, who was evidently on leave from the front. A stout, imposing, v.ell-dreßsed woman at once opened conversation with himThe soldier spoke freoly and rather bitterly of the hardships he had undergone, of the rigorous discipline which he had suffered, and the heavy losses outside "Verdun, where he had just come from. The pond lady liutened sympathetically, interposing kindly remarks. Eventually she got down, but told the trmway conductress to keep tbs car waiting. She then w*nt to the nearest policeman, and ordered him to taka" tha sol iior ?n charge. The policeman, who was an elderly, good-natured looking fellow, demurred and the other psesaugeri in the tram protested, whereupon the good lady brought out from a reticule her card showing that she was an inspectress of the secret police. The policeman obeyed and took the too out-spoken soldier into custody.”