The accounts received on all hands from Berlin point to
a terrible state of disorganization in the capital of Germany. Rents- have doubled, and whenever a family is evicted the populace take sides with it, attack the police, and very often win the battle. As it is the official theory that the soldiers must always win if called out, at any loss of life, and as a Berlin mob is composed of soldiers who do not like to fly, the Government is most reluctant to appeal to the military, and the police are often very hardly treated. Crime, too, is rapidly on the increase ; Berlin is full of swashbucklers who get into -wilful quarrels with civilians ; and the sanitary condition of the city is the worst in Europe. There is no scientific drainage whatever, the death-rate is double that of London, and if the cholera effects a lodgment it may be- come endemic. The Government, however, with £200,000,000 taken from France, will not give the Berliners even the /8,000,000 extorted from Paris, and the Town Council cannot get rid of its old tradition of saving pennies. It would cost cash to drain.
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