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SATURDAY, FEBRUARYZ...15. 1919.
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"TWO IMPRESSIONS" OF BERLIN.
BYA RUHLEBEN PRISONER.
On my last day of liberty— Nov. 5, 1914-1 set off from Char lottenburg and walked through the Tiergarten towards Unter den Lindou.
The whole city was wearing a smile of complacency. The expression of the ornate, stuccoed buildings, the product of the period since 1870, was one-with the expression of the faces, a `certain heavy vanity and self- satisfaction hung over them. The self-elected lords of the world were drunk with their premature auccesses, and saw before their dazed eyes a future of universal dominion.
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In Bismarck Strasse a book- hshop window caught my eye. At the top of the pane was a fancy map representing Europe after the war. Eugland had retired, ac- cording to this Prussian prophecy beyond a line running roughly from Liverpool to Edinburgh. France was still clinging to a narrow strip east of the Pyrenees, and the outline of Russil was ominous of the future treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Next this was a placard with an interesting heading: "German Girls! Spit in the Englishman's Face!"-a preparatory exercise, perhaps, for the serious work of organised hating which should come later: In all corners of the window thin and fragile High- landers, symbolic of the British Army, were depicted in postures of terrified, prostration before an idealised Landsturmmann.
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THE CONFIDENT CITY, I Along the road a company of Uhlans passed, riding out Potsdam. The same arrogant confidence was visible in their bearing. Enthusiastic old ladies threw them cigarettes. I walked on into the Tiergarten, where the oaks and beeches had wrapped themselves in their russet autumn cloaks, Swaying and sighing in the wind, they seemed to be mourning over the spectacle of human madness and futility. It was a blessed' thing to bury oneself in their sombre and quiet recesses. out of the continual streets and discord of life in the enemy capital, out of sight of their flagy and trophies, out of sound of their brag and vanity. Trees are the same all the world over, and
parts of the Keiser's Tiergarten were es peaceful and homely as an Eng- lish wood.
The Brandenburger Gate, sur- mounted by the brazen Chariot of Victory rose into view above the tree-tope. Huge crowds were assembled at its base; a procession, was coming with guns captured at the battles of the Masuriau
akes. Troops of mounted police,! farmed with sabres and revolvers, rode hither and thither, driving the eager crowd back on to the pavements, while down the open causeway long grey motor-cars flow past filled with officers of the garrison. Presently a company of East Prussian Landsturm appeared-small elderly men in black overcoats; and behind them the long train of captured guns.
When daylight began to fade | the nightlife, of which Berlin was so stupidly proud, began to show Itself in the Friedrichstadtquarter. The cafes, cabarets, and dancing
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saloons were soon crowded. From their eyes dull and fatigued. Bailors. Adversity seems to have the brilliantly-lighted rooms the whether there are food-supplies wrought a tremendous change in sounds of Deutschland uber in the rural districts or not, I the mental outlook of the people. Alles" and "Die Wächt BI cannot say, but certain it is that Vanity and dreams were gone, Rhein" came mingled with the strains of "Puppehen.“
the poorer population of Berlin is and a cold objectivity had re- near the brink of starvation. placed them. Several expressed month-long orgy of celebration was starting again. Under the Que shop in three was closed, their thankfulness that Germany. ol stars I walked home through and such as were open had little had lost the war, believing "that to sell. The bakers showed no- the lot of the German people. thing but the small rye-loaves, under a
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the Tiergarten, under the stars which shine on the just and the anjust, on the England and the Germany of 1914..
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victorious autocracy one of which is the weekly allow would have been far worse than ance per head. Here and there it now is.. No one seemed dis long queues
standing. Posed to deny Germany's guilt in shivering in thread bare clothes causing the war. For four years we Britishers before the door of a butcher or Tirpitz, and were confined within the barbed greengrocer and over them all spoken of with hatred and con- wire fences of Rubleben. Then hung the same heavy despond-tempt.
THE CITY DEFEAT.
The Kaiser, Ludendorff, were
The pity of it one man the same Ausence of said to me, "is that it needed a few days after the outbreak of ency,
years of war, before we could. the revolution I was walking vitality and spirit. again down the Bismarck Strasse
In the centre of Berlin the shake off our yoke." towards Berlin. It was raining changes wrought by the war
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As I passed through the streets the streets were covered with were still more striking. Before late that night, I saw several Watery mud, and round the the Iron Hindenburg I found a groups of soldiers returning from from the front. Cold, wei, insufficiently houses
of compatriots mist was group alinging. There were
still Ruhleben, industriously engaged clothed, with no shelter and gs to be seen, but they were in pulling out the nails. A Ger- scarcely any food, they trudged the red flags of revolution. The man soldier made himself useful apathetically through the muddy uccowork on the house-fronts by loosening them with his pen-streets. The crowds on the pare nd decayed and fallen away; the knife. Other Germans stood look-ments turned away from them; ces of the passers-by were no ing on apathetically, but no one there seemed to be no welcome, Longer complacent, but grim and made a sign of protest. Round no preparations for their recep- tion. They looked in truth fifingry, they trudged along un-
Unter den Linden the streets ingly, their eyes fixed on the showed signs of fghting. The the very raw material of round. The women bore clearly university library and several of Bolshevism, the vanguard of a emarks of under-feeding their the dafes were chipped with wave which threatens to engulf
was yellow and transparent rifle bullets, and the scars of the country in chaos
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