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Show Leather Shoes Sold Out in City of Berlin THE HAGUE, June 30. (By Mail.) Leather shoes are sold out in Berlin, Ber-lin, says the correspondent of the Amsterdam Ams-terdam Handelsblad. "Clothing of all kinds, Including under un-der clothing, is most difficult to get, oven with a clothing card. No handkerchiefs, hand-kerchiefs, no shirts, no socks, no napkins, nap-kins, no woolen or cotton jackets for baby. Decent washing and toilet soap lino l-rcr liAan linnVito InnKln Tinir many things are unobtainable that are still to bo had in Holland, although prices may run much higher than in peace times. Yet the Berliner looks fairly clean and well-groomed. The art of clothesmeriding has been carried car-ried to a fine point here. And water and sand keeps you clean, too, at a pinch, "Smokeable cigars cannot be bought for less than 60 hennigs, and then not more than three at a time. A clgaret costs 12 fennigs, and smoking tobacco tobac-co has gone the way of rice nnd beans and peas and salad oil and brandy nnd turpentine and sealing wax and a hundred hun-dred othor articles. Gone, completely gono. "Only as regards fuel, the Berliners pi 1 1 i-iraageBBB - -n rnrnnwd I are better off. Thero Is hardly any HH limit on gas, electricity or coal. i'H "Great material privations havo IH been, and aro being borne, with fortl- H tude. Added to which aro tho pangs 1;H of mourning and sorrow, grief and H anxiety In thousands of homes for the ,H fallen, and thoao about to fall." H |