Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-12 | Page 15 | Berlin Busy; Crowds Lively

SBERLIN BUSY; CRDWDS;UVELY Striking Feature Is Great Number of Soldier Street Vendors. (New York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable. Copyright.) kOTT!-:RPAM, Doc. 11. The street scenes in Berlin are extraordinary. There are lively crowds everwhere, but the most striking- feature is the number of dis.-harpvd soldiers trying to grain a hv-injt? hv-injt? as street vendors, recah'.n what hap-j.cned hap-j.cned in 1'etrofrrad after the revolution. The following picture is drawn by the Berlin correspondent of the Nieuwe Uol- , terdanische Courant ; The streets of Berlin exhibit now the same joyful crowds of former years in the period when Christmas approaches, and especially noticeable are many couples cou-ples oblivious to all ills in the happiness happi-ness of reunion. One notes no apprehension apprehen-sion of revolutionary troubles in the demeanor de-meanor of the public filling- tho streets; but a clear indication of the new situation is the hitherto -unknown sight in Berlin of a lar;,'e number of soldiers mingim with the crowd and offering for sale all kinds of trifles. "They are selling- in ths streets cipa-rets, cipa-rets, pamphlets, newspapers, red badges ami revolutionary postcards, among them more or less successful caricatures of the kaiser. In this respect Berlin also is be-rrinning be-rrinning to bear resemblance to Pc.rograd, as I saw it in the days of the revolution. revolu-tion. Another very strikfnir resemblance is that now and then Invalided soldiers are seen begging."