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THIS IS LIFE IN WAR-TIME BERLIN

Compared with

life in war-time

They Depress

London

Grand Duchess Kyra May be New German Empress RATIONS AND

IS NAMED BLACK-OUTS Germans GRANDSON

HERE you are given the story of Life in Berlin

as it is three months after war began. It is told by

a neutral journalist, and was sent to London from 'Berlin.

Germans, at this intermediatet stage of "frozen crisis" (with) hostilities chiefly of the propa-| ganda kind), are trying to live as normally as possible.

How normally you may judge from this point-by-point com

Berlin ant parison between London:-

THESE ARE THE

STREETS-

IN BERLIN: Street Be, at least n thday time, presents à matter-of- fact appearance. There is no differe free

are kes time way the lives falling this autumn. Only wemen and okt men are sweeping them up in the Purgarten instead of the youn men who used to do so.

mand

far fewer cats, Tarvie re jetrol is rigidly rationed for those exempted from the general ban.

Taxis have become rave, and muy be med only when no other form of convegance is available.

IN LONDON: There are still youngj men to be seen in the streeta, und there are still taxia.

THESE ARE THE

SHOPS

IN BERLIN: The shops cloce for three hours in the afternoon. Retail stocks are gearcer than before, hat street queues have mostly dis appeared.

Several articles are absent from 1e shelves of the shops altogether. and hundreds of others can be bought only with special permits which are cated at sparingly by the authori ties, on special application.

The authorities say reassuringly that the British blockade will never work as it did in 1917, that there are ample reserves, and that Russia will supply any deficiency..

IN LONDON: There is no scarcity of food except bacon, here and there, One per cent. of German ships have to home since the war; Russia's ald to Germany is doubtful.

THESE ARE THE

THEATRES-

IN BERLIN: The opera and the thealres are filled even more than before the war. Supper and dancing establishments

also patronised

19 usual.

arc

In most restaurant no warm food is served between three pan. and six p.m.

Portly business men, even in the most fashionable restaurants. ore obediently handing over their little tickets for their pinkc

schnitzels". that is, if their wives, have been able to spare them from the home supply.

rattun

Fout cards, soap cards, and the need of special permits to buy even clothes and shoes are a depressing influence, and thrust into every Ger- In uncompromising m's mind. fashion, the awareness that there is a war on.

IN LONDON: Berlin's entertain- ment as usual example might be followed!

We have no rationing-and in the opinion of many there is no need for it and it will not be imposed. Wel have no shortage of soup, clothes or shoes.

THESE ARE THE HOSPITALS-

IN BERLIN: Some schools, even near the centre of the elty, fy n red cross flag. There are beds in them where benches used to be. In the same way many hotels have been turned into military hospitnis.

The long lines of lorries and am- that went through after bulances the Polish campaign have ceased.

Except for the familles of the dead and wounded nobody talks much more about the Polish campaign.

IN LONDON: There is no need to fum schools into hospitals. There are few casualties yet.

THESE ARE THE BLACK-OUTS—

IN KAISER'S NEW WILL

ANTWERP.

GREAT anxiety is felt at Doorn for members of the Hohenzollern dynasty liv- ing in Germany. Over several weeks ex- Kaiser Wilhelm has awaited messages from his children and grandchildren. He regu larly sends letters, but he does not get any

answers.

All's "Jaker- loo" for those cheerful Aus- tralian recruits in camp at Mornington, Mel. bourne. No wonder they're cheerful— they've just been paid.

near

Schuschnigg

speaks from his attic cell

VON RIBBEN-

TROP'S al- tempt to split Britain and France is part of the same polley pursued, ungue- cessfully, by Ger- the many

Great War, as this cartoon, first published In 1914, now re- produced in R Atunich~~paper,~ nbows. It carries the captions; "The English Spider sucks France's pack."

"Smile or Die" U-boat order

WEYMOUTH.

BRANDISHING a revolver, the commander of

a German U-boat ordered a British crew, adrift in an open boat, to “smile or die,” while he took their photo- graphs.

Only a few minutes before he had sent their ship, the steamer Sneaton, to the bottom of the Atlantic. The only warning given was a shrapnel shell that burst on the deck, killing one of the crew.

was

This amazing story

told by members of the Sneaton's crew who have landed at Weymouth

ADMIRER

OF RUSKIN

Donation To Library By Japanese Collector

Tokyo, Jan. 10. Friends of Mr. Ryukichi Mikimoto, the eldest son of Japan's pearl king, have succeeded in returning to this

IN BERLIN: When black-outs were admirer of John Ruskin his former Arst imposed the number of traffle neeldents rose, and so did the num collection of the English author's ber of robberies. Oficials tackled relics, the Asahi Shimbua reports. 'both problems drastically.

They believe the pictures taken will be used by German propa- caudists to prove the "gentleman- ly way in which the U-boat war I being conducted.

von

His eldest son, the ex-Crown Prince, is virtually interned in German his home at Potsdam. telephone operators will not conneet calls to his number.

Among members of the ex-Kaiser's family in Germany who are closely watelied are Wilhelm's favourite grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand, who would probably be emperor if the German periple demanded a return of the monarchy..

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When the ex-Kaiser gave a party for his eightieth birthday sevenl Beers of the late Imperial Army, headed by Field-Marshal von Mac- kensen, were present.

It is reported that the ex-Kaiser has in his safe a document drawn up te the presence several officers in which he authorises them to transfer all his rights as head of the Hohen- to Prince Louts zallem dynasty

Two yeur Ferdinand, who married

ago the Russian princess, Kyra:

Princess Kyra stayed at Doorn for several months with her baby and made an excellent impression on Wilhelm.

Although the ex-Kaiser kept hist promise not to speak or write on any political subject, he has always been on terms of friendship with the monarchists in Germany, who send and tele- him thousands of letters

Helped Officers Still more regular contact with the monarchists has been kept up by

the ex-Kaiser's]

Princess Hermine, wife. She foianded a society to help

FROM his boxroom cell,grams every year. measuring ten feet by nine, under the eaves of the Hotel Metropole, Vienna, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, former Austrian Chancellor, for nineteen months prisoner of the Gestapo, has sent out his first message to the world.

"When Dollfuss was

officers and their widows of the late Imperial Army who are now living

in poverty.

part of the present German Anny

leports from Germany say a large

restoration of the still favour a

Some call monarchy.

for Prince Ferdinand, while others would prefer assas- Prince Frederick William, who is live

The better chances are given to

sinated I stepped into the breaching in Britain. and did my duty by Austria," | Louis Ferillund because of his mar- he proudly proclaims. "They rage with a Russian princess. shall not change me."

The monarchists issue ceaseless

Schuschnig's message 'was brought propaganda. lo London by Dr. T. Vernon, a former

From Doorn comes a booklet with

history profesor i finnstate the title, "The Emperor, Past and

University.

Present," in which the author states:

Dr. Vertion was allowed to leave that the German people have a debt Vienna

of war.

a week after the outbreak of honour to the ex-Kalser because, He has made his way to Erig-he sacrificed himself for Germany,

land via Budapest and Rome.

Sworn To Secrecy

I saw Dr. Schuschnigg only once,"

he sold. snici.

"That

was

what he

When he states, poor man, that

he is unchanged I know the people, of Austria will belleve him in spitej

of all Nazi propuganda.

"His stole a pitiful, Apart from

U.S.A. Poll

Unmasks a

his wife, who is sworn to secrecy, I Nazi Scheme

have been the only visitor allowed to sce him.

"Once past the guards and the

NEW YORK.

loud speaker which blares Kramo- THERE is cónfirmation to. phone records of Hitler's speeches day of the suspicion that the to the prisoner day and night, one thousands of letters and tele- finds oneself in a tiny attic, The Chancellery," the Gestapo men grams received by Congressmen

urging them mockingly call it

to vote against There, sunk deep in despondency, lifting the arms embargo were is a white-haired man whom I hardly principally Inspired by "pres- recognised at Arst AS the former spritely Viennese.

sure groups.”

"Schuschnigg told me he has no The Gallup Institute of Public appetite. He la ving on an un-

"Do you think Congress should change the neutrality low so that England and France could buy war supplies.here?"

healthy diet of coffee and mushed Opinion has polled the United potatoes. He does not expect to States carefully on the question: "Or We Shoot"

leave his room alive, unless the Nazis

as they often. One of the men, a fireman, whose bring him to trial," words are confirmed by his ship-threaten to de mater sald:

"I have taught myself English here, he told me. I had the in-

Before President Roosevelt de- sanc idien once that the Nazla might release me, and then I would livered his special message urging! have gone with my family America. It was only n dream." "He

"If that U-boat commander escapes capture he'll take back to Germany pictures of us cheering the men who sent our ship to the bottom,

"But our smiles and cheers were produced by threat of sudden death:

"The submarine came along- klo our lifeboat, and while an oficer focussed a camera on us, German sailors krpi covered with rifles and a ma- ching-gun

the

Mr. Mikimoto's unparalleled col-

to itch a change in the law the Gallup Instituie figures showed 67 per cent. was reading the American of American voters favouring the navel, Margaret Mitchell's Gone lifting of the embargo. with the Wind, ploughing laboriously After President's Speech

his knowledge of English being mited-through its eight hundred pages of historical romance.

afler the Fre- The poll taken sident's spereta oliowed that this; majority lind increased sharply to 023 per cent.

General Beaton-Up The speed, limit was cut down

Some of the Congressmen have de- Then he spoke of his son and sharply, and the death sentence was lection of Rukin's works, outographus, The U-boat commander shouted

sculptures and other Smile and cheer or we'll shoot," and namesake, Kurt, now aged fourteen, clared that the mall showed an 80 imposed even for petty crimes com- paintings, mited after dark.

objects numbering more than 2,000 the way he brandished his revolver who has not been allowed to see him per cent, opinion against lifting the What Germans have had to put up articles has been kept in the store left no room to doubt that he meant for nearly two years, Frau Schusch- embargo. But a recent revelation

business."

nigg, who sees him for five minutes that the United States Government is with so for may definitely be classed

each Friday, brings him ol the news in possession of intercepted. cablon, na Incorventence rather than hard-room of the Tokyo District Court for

the 'boy,

pathisora in America to use all por- ship. Most of them say that the two nearly two years. Mr. Mikimoto was

prevent the ban most depressing features are food decinred bankrupt two years ago to a library, in accordance with the sey, whom he over expects to from Germany instructing Nazi sym-

Mr. "Only a few weeks ago Isuw mensible inluence to

Conskleret in conjunction with the IN LONDON--The Transport pay all the enormous debts he had Kokich! Mikimoto. Although he gave of an Austrian regiment, attack their being lifted is now being recalled,

cont Berlin Minister should

In contracted during his study of John up his home and property after being commanding officer, one of Biller's

declared bankrupt, Mr. Mimoto puppet generals. They beat this man Gallup Institute's ovidence, this heds tackling the black-out aceldents pro-Ruskin,

continued his study of Ruskin and up at û zuilway station in Vienna, some light on one, at least, of the blems: there is no black-out erline

It is now reported that Mr. Miki-published a book recently entitled, That is a straw which shows which possible reasons for the Conginss

way the wlad may eventually blow," men's heavily weighted malibogs problem to tackle, for crime has de-moto plans to donate all his collection!The Way to Ruskin."—Domet. creased here since the war.

cards and black-outs.

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