Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-28
CORRESPONDENT
IN BERLIN SEES
GREATEST MISERY
Capital Is DeSoIate and Suf-
fering There1s Greater than
in Russia; Empire Inert and
PoWerIeSS
BY Arno Dosch-Fqeurut.

(Staff Correspondent of The World. J
Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publish
ing Co. (The New York WORLDLY
Especial Gable Dispatch TO the World
and Albuquerque Journal)
Berlin (via Copenhagen, Nov. 23.-
The strongest impression one gets on
coming into Germany is that the coun-
try lives in the expectation of certain
famine unless its former enemies
come 10 it's aid
The traveller rides in heatless aad
lightless trains which creak painfully
because of a Jack of axle grease. He
passes through station after station
without a mouthful of food. He finds
hardly the substitute coffee, which it
self is disgusting and must be taken
without milk or sugar.
Entering Berlin, he finds muddy and
shabby street cars, with occasional
loungers in vast empty cafes Almost
the only street traffic consists of SOL
diers heading homeward, too worn to
feel any JOY oveTthe homecoming.
All this gives an impression OF pro-
longed misery such as | have not seen
during the war. Even in Russia ex-
Cept for the organized starvation of
the bourgeoisie. there is no such mis-
cry. Plainly, Germany has reached
the absolute limit and lies now eX-
hausted.
The revolution even had no such
wild joyonsness as that in Russia. The
empire fell over; the revolution fell on
top, where it is now lying. Signs of
fighting are insignificant. The up
heaval has not been followed by the
senseless parading of bayonets so bore
some in Russia. The only case of rev.
clutionary swank | noticed was a
busting little sailor with an enormous
red bow, followed by two armed SOL
diers, who requisitioned the taXicab
was about to enter. The spectacle was
so unusual that it even amused the
onlookers.
The people generally are too worn
to celebrate anything. They want
simply to go home, eat and recover,
l came to Germany with some per-
sonal misgivings, expecting to find
a survival of cockiness in at least a
few individuals, but though I walked
the streets talking English and
French, few took notice and none
cared.
To all, the war is completely over,
with not the slightest chance to re-
commence Everything from pre-
venting starvation to a suitable, peace
lies in our hands. The sense Of every
conversation with men in the gov
eminent and with revolutionsts is
that this is not the Germany which
fought for four years, and the new
Germany asks for quarter. Were it
net for imminent Btarvation the
country would drop exhausted, but
the situation presses. Democrats,
fearing the political effect of hunger
riots, are trying to get food into the
cities, but the delicate organization
for food which is needed weekly and
it's manipulation is now at stand
still organization of local distrib1-
lion is there, but with the decentral-
ization of power it Is impossible to
move accordingly. Each district re-
fuses to give. Only the lifting hand
from without can save.
The extreme radicals, seeing in the
misery of the people q possibility to
capitalize starvation politically, are
busily working up sentiment and
there is growing danger that the
people will face general fatigue. The
intellectual classes, the worst fed,
have no resistance and so collapse.
Even highly organized industrial Ger
many is more than possibility, SEEM
ingly even a certainty, when famine
comes, and famine is question of
weeks,
Germany, so far. is not radically