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SHAPING PERMITS,

CHAPTER XV111.

BY D. THOMAS CURTIN.]

Among the correspondence I am rewir ing from the British public, and the re marks made to me by those with whom I come in contact, are always many ques tions as to comparative conditions in Berlin and London at the present time. I will gladly give my impressions for what they are worth, though I state right hem," as we say in the United States, that my knowledge of England is comparatively slight, while Germany has been my life study since I was at West Roxbury School, Massachusetts, and dur

my course at Harvard,

I

had studied Germany on the spot on three long visits prior to the war, and have spent altogether during the war nearly a year and a half there My knowledge of Great Britain is simply that of an ordinary occasional Americah tourist before the war, and this is my sixth visit during the war. I will en deavour to describe faithfully what I have seen this last month in London, and that which I saw when I left Berlin.

DEMOBILISATION.

their building constructions are going on as WAR FACTORIES AFTER THE usual. Thereare no silent and half-finished! | buildings such as the great hotel I saw in Piccadilly and the County Council Ball on the other side of Westminster-bridge,. on both of which work seems to have atop ped altogether. The construction of the Nerd-Sid Bahn of the underground rail way, for linking up the north and south sections of Berlin has proceeded right along, the women doing the heavy work of navvies,

The German Government is not too proud of this fact. An American kine matograph operator, Mr. Edwards, of Mr. Hearst's papers, was desirous of taking a film of these women avvies heavy, sad-looking creatures they are, The Government stepped in and suggested that, while they had no objection to a personally conducted and posed picture, in which the women would no doubt smile to order, they could not permit the reali- ties of this unwomanly task to be shown in the form of a truth-telling moving picture.

Much has been written concerning the terribly destructive effects of modern warfare and comparatively little has been said as to that constructive side of it which will inevitably in time of prace produce important consequences. There French and the Gorman side of the trench are many places in France, both on the from line which divides Barbariam Civilisation, that lave for years been clamouring for light railway Incilities. The exigencies of modern war have pro- vided them to day with a profusion of railway communications beyond their wildest dreams, and when peace declared, however much the rails may have been torn up by shell fire, the tracks will still be there for future uso.

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Similarly, all along the front roads have been broadened and multiplied. In certain districte, where the want of water

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the main obstacle to progress, hundreds of wells have been bored, and it may be that at the end of hostilities districts which were practically barren. and unpopulated will enjoy abundance of water and consequently prosperity--

With regard to conditions in the Prus-oned through the streets on their way will be able to render when the war is a

sian capital, I would point out that there are signs that things are worse in Ger- many than when I was there a few weeks

ago.

To anyone who knows the manœuvrings of the German Press Bureau, the ex- ploitation of Von Bethmaan Hollweg's speech of Friday, the fact that it was telegraphed en bioc to even the neediest Dutch newspapers (whose telegraphic charges are defrayed by the German Gov ernment) confirms inpressions that I gathered on leaving, that the pace of the descent was increasing.

On Saturday, too, were issued some alleged casualties, deliberately falsifying facts. When the great veil of mystery that shrouds Germany is litted, I believe that it will be found that these casualties have in the Berlin censor fashion been delayed, suppressed, and confused. They are believed in by hardly any members of the only thinking party in Germany-the Social Democrata, Daily intercourse with Germans brings to light the inet that Johann, who was killed five months ago, has not been mentioned in any list, and that Heinrich, who was reported woanded, has really been dead. six months.

OVERWORKED DOCTORS.

There is another great piece of contrast. Though I have looked about carefully in London, I have seen no prisoners at work, The official figures explain that you have more of their prisoners than they have of youre. Tommy is well to the fore almost everywhere in Germany, working long hours and often at unpleasant tasks. I did not notice any British prisoners working in Berlin itself, but more than saw little squads of them being from one station to another, and. I can assure you that the hearts of the neatrals went out to them. They bore themselves gallantly, head erect, with a cheerfulness that the German does not comprehend and On another occasion I much dislikes. saw British officer prisoners crossing the Potsdamer Platz on their way to Pots They were the abject of dam Station. intense curiosity, and were surrounded by a sea of Germans. There was no molesta

They tion or manifestation either way. were smartly dressed, and obviously at tractive to the feminine eye, as I gathered by the outspoken remarks of some of the Hackfische (Hoppers) around me..

But I find

All over the belligerent countries hugo factories have sprung up, with the purely destructive purpose of manufacturing powder and explosives. In France the question as to what service there factories thing of the past has been very seriously considered. It is clear that the problem of diverting the energy of mobilised labour into the tracks of peaceful work would be enormously facilitate if war factories could be transformed in accor dance with the requirements of ordinary industrial need, without oxocasive delay or expense.

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As I

saw it the other afternoon it is a picture tion are woefully disappointed. of prosperous activity, Well-dressed soi- diers in khaki from all over the Empire were escorting fair admirers, shops park- ed to repletion with food that would be luxury in Berlin's West-end; no beg- gars, no out-of-works, none of the ranting. revolutionary Socialista at street corners that one might expect.

All the factories which have been con- structed for the preparation of acids, tar products, powder and explosives, all required for warlike, purposes, can, ak soon as peace is certain, be easily trans- formed into works that will make arti- Acial perfumes, photographic material,

products and hoth While I was in Germany some excellent pharmaceutionl letters from one of Lord Northeliffe's my organic and inorganic chemical dyes.

With a view to paving the way towards sterious neutrals appeared in The Times.

becz We read them with great relish in Berlin this important transformation, & number because they were absolutely accurate. of powerful associations have One of them spoke of the unreality of formed, of which one of the most import- Syndicat: National des life in Berlin. Superficially, and until bat is the you want something to eat, or a ride in Matieres Colorantes," which is a com- taxicab, Berlin at night is gay. Lon- bination of coal and metallurgical com- don at first sight is appallingly gloomy punies, papermakers, dyers, toxtile manu- in the evening, and foreigners hardly facturers, etc. care to leave their hotels, that, behind the gloom and darkness, there is plenty of spontaneous gaiety at My inquiries on this head largely lay the theatres and other places of entertain- among those connected with the wonderment. There is plenty of food, no peacr ful German hospitals, in which I took talk, and absolute confidence. Great interest on this, as on previous visits. The efforts are being made by the German German Army Medical Service makes no Government to keep up the spirits of the secret of the fact that the Government is people. No public entertainer need ko to keeping unpleasant realities from the the war at all, the opern is carried on people. As one of them put it to me exactly as in peace time, though I confess It is a shame that the over-worked that- my material goul found it difßcult condition of our surgeons and doctors to enjoy Tristan on a long and monoton should be hidden beneath these lying off- ons diet of sardines, potatoes, cheese, and cial lists. We are badly paid, badly fed, carp. A humorous American friend used carrying on without supplies of india to laugh at the situation the brilliantly altogether different from Berliners, Hay- rubber gloves and other essentials. We dressed house, officers in their extremelying to take most of my meals in restau are not popular with either the army or handsome grey uniforms. ladies, some of rants, mixing with people in the tubo the public. We have been killed in farge them with too many diamonds, and-very railways, and an occasional visit to

club, I have not heard the war discussed numbers. Each one of us is doing the little to eat.

SCARCITY OF HULBER

to anything like the extent it would be work of three, and those of the public

in similar places in Germany. Perhaps Getting away from the opera is a ques- who believe these rose-coloured lists wonder what we are grumbling at." tion of tramcar. There are just a few it is because the English people have such Two doctors with whom I became taxicabs running on worn-out solid tyres. quiet voices that one is unable to bear acquainted were at Verdun from FebruOne could see them diminish daily. The them, but whenever I do hear them they ary 21st to the end of April. They put German soldiers complain bitterly that do not seem to be particularly discussing down the German losses at over 600,000 their important transport service has the war. for that period, of whom during the first been heavily handicapped by the rubber fortnight a great number were killed. shortage. The substitute they are using, The wounded were wounded by French which containe about 8 to 10 per cent. of shells, and terribly mangled. Of slightly real rubber, is not a great success, wounded cases there were a few, Germans say that a machine gun hurts, but a cannon kills. The French punished the Germans round Verdun with shells, not as a rulo with machine-guns.

The

In offering these remarks, I would point out that I am comparing London in the second week of November with Ber lin of six weeks ago,

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In the automobile quarter of Berlin, shop after shop is filled with handsome ears, for which there are no purchasers, and which are tireless,

The vitality of London, the immense stream of trafic, the tall Australians and Now Zealanders, clean cut Canadians, dogged-looking English and Scots, the handsome young officers, the air of real confidence and abundance, strike me every I make these prefatory remarks to point time I leave my hotel for a walk: the com out that things are changing for the worse parison with the deserted roads of Ber in Germany. They cannot, even within makes a newly arrived foreigner nerv Roumanian supplies, captured, improve ous in crossing one of your whizzing main thoroughfares. You can walk across most streets in Berlin reading a newspaper, and those who remember Ber in before the war will realize the differ

So far I have heard no bell-ringing and seen no flag displays in London, although since I have been here the advances, and captures of prisoners on the Western front would have afforded the Germans occasions for half-dozen such displays, Please imagine the flagging and ringing in Berlin if the Allied advance at Verdun had been a German advance in the same locality.

On the day of your Lord Mayor's Show I was trying to return to the West-end by the south side of the river, and sudden ly halted in front of a butcher's shop.ence. I had not seen so much meat at one time since I left home,

The attitude of Londoners, as far as I know them, towards the war

At a Stock Exchange restau- rant, where I was taken by a friend the other day, I asked him what people would be talking about, and without eavesdrop- ping it was very obvious that they were I do not not talking about the war. hear the eternal food discussions here, though the prices in the shop windows are high enough, whereas, as I have already stated, the two words recurrent through- "food" out the whole of Germany are and "peace." They even break through the censorship and get into the news- papere,

When I first came to England during the war I thought that this detachment of mind was a weat of enthusiasm, and truly I am convinced that, in the earlier months of the war and for some time. afterwards, many people I met here bad no idea of the undertaking before them. That cannot be ao to-day, when every family has one or more mamiers in one of the Services. Yet the Englishman at home goes on very much as usual, and is as placid as he has always been.

URITISH GAMES CONTINUE, You even continue your games. There are few ball games in Germany today, partly because there is no indiarubber. Lawn tennis came to a standstill early last year. Here in London I see golfers at the railway station on the way to their game, and plenty of football playing on Saturday afternoons.

LONDON'S WELL-PILED SHOPS. The contrast set me thinking. Here are shops filled with good things; here are no long waiting lines of tired women and children standing out, rain or shine. to get the blessed bread, or potatoes, or weekly half pound of meat. For in Ber- lin, directly you get away from the aristo eratic residential quarters you come across these endless quenes. Looking down some of the streets une can see five or six. They vary in length from 10 to 50 yards long. The scene is repeated in every Ger- man city.

Everywhere in Berlin nowadays are the wounded. For a long time they were from the capital itself. kept away Gradually every hall in the surrounding towns became full, and the Berlin authori One can get a good idea of the temper

of the German people and Von Bethnan ties were forced to take over restaurants, schoolhouses, concert halls, and, indeed, Hollweg's consequent outburst, by stand- every building in which men could being outside such a place as the Kringanka

demie where the lists of wounded are housed.

There are Your wounded look much tidier than displayed in small type.

There people around them all day, anxiously the Germans, and aro cheerful,

The ladies who are su busy shopping in must be now a considerable wamber of watching the walls. I spent an hour one wounded in these islands, but although I afternoon pretending to look through the Oxford-street, Regent-street, and Ken bave been all over London there can be lists and hearing what was said. On no sington do not have to go to the police very few here by comparison with Berlin. occasion did any persons discover the par station to obtain a permit to buy a pair ticular friends or relatives for whom they of stockings, and your big stores are The clothing of the German wounded is

The people were of lives filled with people buying real articles of the cheapest, consisting of a striped were looking. canvas suit; none of those so attired are course, poor folks, because the official without police permits, whereas the Ber The alleged casualty lists can be bought in lin ladies are often obliged to get a police allowed to enter drinking places.

permit, to buy a substitute, The ladies convalescent wear their ordinary uniform sections, the proceeds going to the Ger-

but not the smart clothes in which they man Red Cross. The attitude of the poor carry special cardeases for their permits. in these places is that of utter hopeless I was amused to observe that as each marched to Brussels in 1914.

ness and discontent.

month succeeds the other, and the number of permits is increased, so these card- ense have been enlarged until they have now become little bags.

The newspaper cries here are different. Here it appears to be the custom to shout the name of the paper. At every corner Then, again, it is obvious that London in Berlin old women and old men an-

is doing real business, while Berlin is It nounce "attacks of 20 Divisions of Eng-practically doing only war business. lish repulsed on the Somme" and the rest does not need the avidence of your figurez of them. When things are going unsually of imports and exports prove that front of the badly on the Somme, the old familiar cry That great human centre of Terrible Russian losses croaks on Mansion House seems to me to display very little difference from its aspect in hour after hour.

peace-time. Arriving at Liverpool-street. Station the other morising by train, I was one of a throng pouring out of the station, which seemed to be exactly as numerous as it was before the war, and, if 1 may say so, an astounding number of young men in civilian clothes.

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EAST-END LUKURY IN LONDON.

Another contrast is the amount of heavy work that is being done by the women of Berlin. Here in London I notice women conductors of street cars and omnibuses. All Americans coming to London like I say a woman scavenger in a provincial to go and visit your East-end, of which town the other day; you have women they have read so much, and so, out of ticket collectors, women operating eleva curiosity, I had a long tramp the other Yesterday I day to revisit Whitechapel and its vicinity bors, clerking in banks, read that women are becoming railroad in war-time. To the natravelled Ameri- can. Whitechapel conjures up visions of crime and pauperism, bnt during war All these things happened in Berlin time, at any rate, those seeking sent long, long ago as far back on Septernher. 1914. It is the boast of the Germans that

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GERMAN BUILDING GOING ON.

(Continued at foot of seat Doluma.)

All this shows foresight on the part of. the Germans, but it also shows me that. of which every pro-Ally neutral living that military and naval is convinced: activity, combined with blockade pres

sure, will force more and more squeale from German politiciens, and eventually bring the war within some measurable distance of a termination-The Times.