BERLIN CRUSHED

Taihape Daily Times, 13 December 1918, Page 7

BERLIN CRUSHED

I - ABJECT AND LIBTLE.S3. resident* dkm c jralised I LONDON, November 24. j An American correspondent, who has reached Berlin, states that the city is unchanged, except that soldiers wearing armlets maintain order instead of policemen. The similarity to Pctrograd under the Kerensky regime is noticeable in many ways. The military .'and Royal automobiles, the latter still sounding their musical call, denoting the approach of Royalty, dash through the streets loaded with soldiers. Red flags fly on all buildings. Hunger has set an unmistakable stamp upon the populace, whose hollow j checks, sunken eyes, and pasty complexions give evidence of the privai tions of the terrible years, j The correspondent noted only one ) corpulent person in a city notorious j for the corpulent. The streets, once j the cleanest in Europe, arc now thick j with refuse, and skeleton horses in di- | lapidated cars and cabs intensify the , j picture of misery. ; Berlin, crushed, broken, and dispirit- j ; P d, Ims accepted defeat with almost j | incredible apathy. It is demoralised, i listless and hungry, even abject, and j in this apathy lies a dangerous oppori tunitv for a few energetic fanatics. 1