he helplessness of police seems to be expressed
in gatherings under the auspices of the red flag, where
internationalism is bawled across the square by unshaven, collarless
young men, and it is "_Hoch die Weltrevolution_!"

"If we lose our export trade then the enfeebled industrial population
of places like Leipzig must die off, and Germany return to the land,"
said a Leipzig editor to me. "But before they die off they'll make red
war in Germany."

Not an unedifying place for the trial of war-criminals! There is
little at Leipzig to give English witnesses an idea of a flourishing or
promising Germany. A true study of the after-the-war Germany would
naturally take in Leipzig and the other great centres of industry and
trade. Berlin is admittedly deceptive, with its profiteers and its
rich foreigners. Bremen and Hamburg would be vital points to
reconsider. I visited the former--a beautiful quiet Hanse town, very
quiet now, once the port of sailing of the Nord-deutscher Lloyd boats,
and a port of many ships. There is an impoverished and diminished
population, and grass is growing in streets where it never could have
grown before. The German mercantile marine has dropped from
six-and-a-half million tons to one-half million of tonnage of little
vessels. You feel that fact at Bremen. The great ships, mishandled
and in many cases disabled, now swell the numerical tonnage of other
countries without adding so very much to their shipping power. The
Hamburg-America line and Nord-deutscher Lloyd and others, shorn of
their real glory, still continue a pettifogging existence booking
tickets for passengers on the ships of foreign lines. What a curious
Germany! She has made a strange backward progress since the days of
the Agadir incident, and the plea which eminent British and American
journalists defended then, that she should be accorded "a place in the
sun."

LETTERS OF TRAVEL

XIII. FROM BERLIN (II)

Berlin is a city of reason, not a city of faith. You cannot get people
to try and do the impossible there. It loves to grade itself upon the
possible and do that. Hence the apathy regarding Germany's
resurrection. Here all is measured and planned and square and
self-poised. No buildings aspire. The golden angels and the other
things which are high--are perched there. Some one put them up; they
did not fly so high. All the great capitals of Europe are redeemed
more by their past than adorned by their p