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Show FIFTEEN TOWNS TO FORM A METROPOLIS If the plans of certain ambitious spirits In the Rhenish-Westphalian Industrial In-dustrial districts are carried out, Berlin Ber-lin will shortly lose its position as the largest city in Germany. They have mapped out a scheme for amalgamating amalgamat-ing fifteen towns, which will create a metropolis with an Imposing population popula-tion of more than 2,500,000 persons. Berlin numbers only' 2,150,000 or thereabouts. The towns which plan this raid on Berlin's metropolitan preeminence pre-eminence are Essen, Dusseldorf, Hague, Elberfeld, Barmen, Witten, Dortmund, Bochum, Gelsenkirchen, Wattenscheid, Herne, Hattingen, Mul-heim, Mul-heim, Duisberg and Oberhausen. Much water will .flow beneath the bridges of Berlin's placid Spree before be-fore the Rhenish-Westphalian scheme fructifies; but they are determined men, those giants who live in the proximity of the Krupp works, and the imperial capital may have to look for its laurels after all. |