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Show BERLIN UNABLE TO COPE WITH UNLAWLESSNESS PARIS, Dec. 16. The Berlin central government Is powerless to preserve order and deserters from the army terrorize the Inhabitants, according to a correspondent of the Journal, who has returned from a visit to Berlin. Robberies and attacks follow one another rapidly and apartments and shops are robbed in midday. Red flags are flying over all the city but business is going on as usual. Tho theaters, the correspondent says, are open and the restaurants aro crowded. The population is well dressed, he says, but In artificial materials. mate-rials. There Is a scarcity of bread, butter, milk and potatoes and speculators are reported to be holding their reserves of foodstuffs. An ordinary meal costs 25 to 30 marks and an order of soup is three marks. The extremist faction will be of short duration, the Journal correspondent believes, because they have not succeeded in obtaining control con-trol of the money which is still in the possession of the bankers and the merchants. mer-chants. The correspondent thinks that a republic finally will be established. The correspondent visited the cellars cel-lars of the imperial palace and saw tho huge stores of provisions kept there whllo the people suffered from hun-iser. hun-iser. oo |