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Show SOME IMPROVEMENT II GEPH ME Department Stores Filled Witli Christmas Shoppers, Says Berlin Report. ("orifipondi'nf e of th Associated F'rrfiM.J HI! Hid N J 'ec. '. The buMuer.fi hit-nation hit-nation in Germany hun undergone, a com ideralde improvement wince the find month or two of the war. Outward tugnrt of this arc viable at Heri'm, More t rinks laden with boxen of goods are mov ing about t lie city now. Chrihtmftfi chopper K,-ep the big department de-partment k l ores well filled; buyort. nt.il! idiow n tendency lo make large purchases, pur-chases, and the iiua attract ivo window exhibit of Ghrlntmae hpecialtiea have not bee Tlicro nlno ia fur lend cniuplaiul. about pco'li! uiit uf em (.Joy jin-nl . Muiiy tnrif.i riuinin on gooila fur which lhr i-u bo link, or no finiiiiin.i in war linn., w.'ici ulna down Ht tho lie(!innin(r of the war, but a i-uusi.liTablo uiimbiir of thi-ai: Imvo now turneii their pluntii into othrr forms of production, chiiflv for niuk-iuK niuk-iuK Bi-m v mii i.plii-M of iioijic. Him). ('iirinus I'fiaiij.om of thin nature are ini.ntione,!. Thus: a tulhiny niachiue fac-tor' fac-tor' is busy trimmiiis: rlirniun'l Blicllb to pr.piiii- thi'in for th.. explosive filling; fill-ing; u piano factory makes cariri'les; a bi-ycle tactorv turn out IjciIM nails for military hospitals: a woo.l workiox estaljliHliuieiit. makes burrui-kii to bo net up where wunte.t to areola inodat e I'lrin-oners I'lrin-oners of war, and a eewing ina.On'ue fuctory in proHiiciuK (.hrapnef. Many of tho rondv-ninilo elothini; shops, tor which Hcrlin it famous, are now producing army uniforin.s. overcoats au. I other arnu'ut.s for the troops. Throughout (icrmany, too, many concerns con-cerns are running exclusively on big army contra. t for woolen 2nnd, blankets, blan-kets, tent cloth, ruini-oat cloth ami, of course, arms au.I ammunition aru pro-ituce.l pro-ituce.l on an enormous scale. The improvement in business lias to a siriut '.tcnt relieved the non-employment that as.-uiiie.l serious dimensions bv the en.l of Aufrnst. Already at. the end of OcNtber tho labor unions of the country were able to report that the number of their members without work hud dropped to less than half of the number at the end of Aupust. in greater great-er Hcrlia the number of persons having srtadv employment was lu'i.tmu greater at the mi., die of November than at the first of tsepte:!: ber. |