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Show BERLIN AFTER ! GREAT DEFEAT' i Red Flag Everywhere, People! Listless and Hungry and Fanatics in Control. ' BERLIN, Via Copenhagen, Saturday, J Nov. 23. (By The Associated Press)-1 Strange arc the experiences of a trav-1 eler who enters Germany after an ab- I sence of several years. Formerb there were many and varied govern- J mental orders and restrictions to bo obeyed. Nowadays, when you go to a police station, the desk sergeant will say sadly: "You are not required to register any longer." They do not even look at your passport.- Another feature of the "new freedom" free-dom" in Germany, which may surprise the traveler is that the private soldier sol-dier no longer salutes his superior officers. of-ficers. The soldier calls his officer "comrade," ' Berlin outwardly is as orderly as ever, but order is no longer maintained main-tained by policemen, but by soldiers with arm bands as tho badge of office. of-fice. The picture is familiar to those who saw Petrograd during the Keren -sky regime. Another sight recalling Petr.ograd is the military and royal automobiles the latter still sounding the musical call denoting tho approach of royalty which dash through the streets with loads of soldiers. The prevailing lone in Berlin is still military, but it is a militarism of privates and non-commissioned officers. offi-cers. Their symbol is the red flag which waves above every government building and from every automobile. As far as any participation in directing the affairs of the government, the bourgeoise citizens simplv do not exist. ex-ist. Hunger has set its unmistakable stamp on the inhabitants of the capital. cap-ital. Here and there hollow checks, sunken eyes and pasty complexions are evidence of the privation of the last four years. Similar conditions; could be observed two years earlier in the city's poorer quarters but to-' day they prevail among nearly all! classes. Delapidiated street cars and j cabs drawn by skeleton horses inten-i sify the picture of misery. The United States is regarded not as 1 an enemy, but actually as a friend Berlin residents hopefully recall assurances as-surances of President Wilson that America does not Intend to wipe out the German people. Borlin crushed, broken and dispirited dispir-ited by privations, has accoptetd defeat de-feat with almost incredible apathy It is demoralized, listless and hungry, even abject. It is primarily this ap-1 athy and the feeling that nothing mat I ters which Is playing Into the hands of a few energetic fanatics who con ' stitute probably the gravest menace : to the immediate future of the Ger-iman Ger-iman people. oo , |