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Show STREETS ARE FILLED WITH FAKE BEGGARS Many Claiming to Be Wounded Soldiers Sol-diers Are Doing Thriving Eusi-ness Eusi-ness in Berlin. BERLIN, pec. 27. (By the Associated Press. ) All the organizations for alleviating al-leviating the lot of the war wounded have joined with the ministry of labor to put an end finally to the begging by the pretended pre-tended wounded soldiers who clutter the principal streets of Berlin. On all sides one sees men whose arms have been I "severed" (by strapping them to I heir ' bodies) or who feign to be suffering from shell shock "and shake pitifully, after learning in a Berlin school the approved methods of shaking. Investigation has shown that these people collect up to 300 marks daily from their faking. Tlie government lias been carrying on investigations for weeks in Berlin, Essen, Hamburg and other large cities, and has established the fact that hardly 5 per cent of the "wounded" soldiers who are begging are genuine. One "shaker" was trailed to a saloon, where he ceased shaking- and drank cognac liberally while he counted up more titan .'100 marks, his day's receipts. Another "one-armed" man collected SO marks in two hours in Tauenlzien street and then was seen to slip around a corner and unbind his missing miss-ing arm. which was belted to his body. In Hamburg, of eighteen men arrested only one proved to have been wounded in the war. |