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Show CRIMINAL ELEMENTS FLOCKING TO BERLIN New Freedom Accorded to Visitors and Natives Is Said to Bo Proving Costly. BERLIN, March 15. (By the Associated Associ-ated Press.) foreigners resident or staying temporarily in Berlin have been ordered again to report to tho police. When the revolution broke out. the rigid rules aoneerning registration of aliens were summarily wiped out along with other police regulations for which Berlin was famous. The new freedom thus accorded visitors vis-itors proved expensive ' for Germany, as it opened her frontiers to a promiscuous influx of foreigners, especially Prussians, who showed themselves to be skillful in eluding the police dragnet which was thrown out. In connection with tho widespread wide-spread Bolshevik agitation. Besides foreign political agitators, criminal elements from all parts of Germany Ger-many were attracted to Berlin by the disorders which made the capital a lucrative lu-crative field for their operations. The ten weeks' administration of former Chief of Police Kicbhorn served to wreck almost completely the efficient police organization or-ganization for which Berlin was well known. The work of rehabilitating the system is proceeding slowly, but with determination. |