The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-14

get half way before a guard walks under your windows calling out the German equivalent fb.. everybody outi
 Then you get out. for ma commit tee and go talk to the station master
 'AIl the roadbeds travelled over were in excellent condition and road construction gangs are paseAd ire quently Stations and Switches arc in good shape, and are being made better as fast as possible.
 "GermaSy's railroads right now are far better than French railroads even than those far away from the de. vasttated areas in France.
 What German railroads ebisr,, lack is rolling stock: In spite of what the Gerrnan armies ssj1e, they will have to bE-~d thousands of new ears and locomotives and do lot of patcbins '. on those they are already using
 You don't see many animals in tbe occupied territory, but in the interior there are plenty of them. I saw hun- dreds and hundreds of Belgian Rn- manian and Russian horses. and even American mules, pulling cabs in Berlin. Doubtless these were captured frov, Italy, for We sent Italy large shipments of mules You could tell them bv the American brands they bore
 HAMBURG HARD HIT
 T saw no hunger in Germany which rather surprised me. I was told any number of times about hunger in some other city, but l never succeeded sn tracking any of it down Even the slums in Berlin--Berln boasts of having TO slums-contained fewer examples of malnutrition than you can find in Lon don or in New York.
 Everybody appeared very well fed. and food was certainly not dear in the towns I visited. In fact, in Frankfort. I was walked up at 4 o'clock in the morning by crowds of people going to work. You won't find people going to work in any crowds in London and Paris before $ o'clock
 ''The 'Messe.' the famous twice-a-vear fair. was on in Leipzig when l was there It has, of course, not been patronized as largely during the war as it was before but still it has been held regularly. Man ufacturers from all over Germany have been sending their wares to it. They don't employ our scheme of erecting a building or a group of buildings for their exhibitions, but they use vacant upper stories and halls, so that all over Leipzig the streets present a f1utter of banners advertising everything from locomotives to underwear. l was astounded at the size of the exhibition that was on when I was in Leipzig.
 T didn't go to Hamburg, but from all I heard it has been the hardest hit of all German cities. It was literally strangled by the blockade. and presume visitors to Hamburg might bring differ ent impressions out of Germany than those with which I have come. I have heard stories of the time last April when our naval commission took over the Im- perator. It was the last great vessel remaining of Germany's mercantile ma rine, and it was probably a pretty bitter pill for Hamburg to swallow
 "I was told in Berlin that when the Imperator moved down the Eiba, both banks were lined with people. They made no protest; they neither yelled nor waved. They watched the great ship go with hardly sound, and barred their heads as she passed
 But Hamburg will come back. Her merchant fleets will be under other flags for years; butshaven't practically all the ships entering New York been under foreign flags?
 'I found the usual wave of immortality in Berlin, which I suppose follows every war. Hundreds of gambling clubs had sprung up, and everybody apepared to be patronizing them"
 MILITARISM STILL STRONG
 Reverting to the prospects of the dye in paWstry, MT. Keene said:
 If we are going to consolidate the world trade we have won, we must utilize every minute of the next year or two.
 ''When Germany comes back, she is going to be exactly the same Germany we knew before the war. The mon archist group may or may not prevail but the military mania is still strong. Most Germans to whom talked admitted that