Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-21
YANKS IN BERLIN
AS FOOD GUARDS
Sent With First of 235. 000-
Ton Consignment, Says
J. German Dispatch
REPORT BY DR.. TAYLOR
Philadelphia Says Foe Can't
Live Unless Relief Supplies
Are Rushed
REPORT BY DR.. TAYLOR
By the Associated Press

London, Feb. 21.-American troops
have arrived in Berlin and been quar-
tered in different hotels, says a dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph from
Copenhagen quoting the Extra Bladet's
Berlin correspondent.
The troops are said to belong TO the
"113th New York Regiment and their
duty will be the protection of expected
transports CT food.
Under Secretary OF State Braun
says" the correspondent says, that
during the negotiations at Spa and
Treves the Allies refused TO give Ger
many credit on the ground that she was
unable to pay. A new agreement was
reached under which Germany is TO get
235, 600 tons of food for S1I, $3.50
1.-The government is negotiating with
Berlin and Hamburg banks to get the
money. A million marks is obtained
by the export of German goods and
other money can be obtained by the
seizure OF neutral and British and
French bonds in private possession"
A Weimar dispatch says that as a re-
suit of Matthias B~rzberger's appeal to
capitalists in the National Assembly for
money to pay for the foodstuffs 10 be
brought from the Entente Powers, sew
eral persons have placed all their foreign
securities at the disposal of the govern
ment.
Paris, Feb. 21.-(By A. P)-"The
German Government Is the same bureau
cratic regime of the Kaiser's day with
the same attitude toward labor and
capital and does not represent the forces
which caused the revolution" says DR..
Alonso T.. Taylor, food specialist. who
has just returned from Germany, where
he made extensive Investigations I'm be-
half OF the supreme food relief council.
Count Won Bernstorff is in charge OF
American affairs at the Foreign once
and the ~bureaucrats of the old school are
i'll evidence everywhere" he added. "The
Germans are becoming Russlanized.
They are afraid to put untried men into
the service and consequently they toler-
ate the old order OF things"
German propagandists, Doctor Taylor
found, favor the league of nations and
are filling the newspapers with articles
saying that President Wilson'S doctrines
should be considered as having become
effective on the day the armlstice was
signed and should have been interpreted
as leaving Alsace and Lorraine in Ger
man hands.
German Army Demobilized
The German army has apparently beer
d~isorganized and demobilized for tht
most part, Doctor Taylor says, but he
believes II will be possible for a well
organized bureaucracy TO restore mill
tarism IL it Is deemed desirable. Many
Germans believe they will recover theiI
battleships and merchant fleet and dc
not expect to give up any territory and
- in Doctor, Taylor's opinion, a graN'
political upheaval is probable with III
signing of the treaty of peace.
The present lull is regarded as un
natural by Doctor Taylor, who says
was possibly created by the payment o
large indemnities to unemployed persons
and by suspending action on all ques
lions vital to the future of the nation.
men in Berlin are pate
eight marks per day while railway work
ers and street cleaners receive only si'
marks daily. Consequently, the mel
prefer to remain idle.
Death Rate Increases
PLAYS so immoral that they wou!'
have been prohibited under the impe
rial regime are now tolerated. tnleNln'
a prevalent, looting is common and tn,
General public morale is very low, Doc
tor Tay,or remarks. He says the foo
s,tuation is critical and that, in spite o
the great reduction made In ration'
an. nation cannot live until next harves
unless supplied by outside Powers. TIL
death rate has increased, especial
among children between Ave and III
teen years of age, children under tw
years faring better than the res
throush the s~elf-sacrifice Of thei
mothers.
Lack of fue. and raw materials ha
closed virtually all industries. and tn
railroads are hampered because the
have little coal. Labor conditions ar
so bad at the coal mines that there
little prospect Of an increase in the fu'
output.
tDr. Alonzo e. Taylor. who made
the foregoing report on conditions II
Germany after an Investigation fol
the supreme food relief council. wa
a former professor at the University
of Pennsylvania. He sailed foI
Europe on November 16, 1918. as Her
bert Hoover's assistant in the task o