conducts to suitable centres, such as Baden-Baden, and there
allowed to choose places of abode according to their tastes and
means. Such restrictions as are put upon their movements are in
their own interests. The authorities have exhorted the
inhabitants publicly as well as by house to house visitations to
treat foreigners with respect and courtesy, taking pride in thus
proving their claim to a truly high standard of civilisation,
and the people have responded nobly to this appeal. Not only
have hotel and pension-keepers done everything in their power to
accommodate their visitors, at the most reduced prices, giving
credit in many instances, but several cases have come to our
notice in which Germans have housed and fed English women and
children, who were perfect strangers to them, out of pure
humanity and good feeling.

You, sir, can imagine how galling it must be to these people
when they read in their papers of the very different treatment
alleged to have been shown to Germans in England, and how
painful and humiliating a position is thereby created for us
here. England has hitherto enjoyed such a high reputation for
chivalry and hospitality that tales to the contrary cause
Germans a half incredulous shock. It it not too late for
England to prove that she is living up to her old standard and
that she refuses to be outdone in magnanimity towards the
stranger within her gates....

(A paragraph follows as to the means by which money can be sent
to Britons _via_ neutral countries.)

(Signed) DOROTHY ACTON (Lady).
F. BULLOCK-WEBSTER, M.A., Oxon, Resident Chaplain of
Baden-Baden.
WM. MACINTOSH, Dr. Ph., Resident English Chaplain,
Freiburg, i.B.

Baden-Baden,
August 20, 1914.

Some account may be given of a party of 190 Englishwomen and 14 children
who landed at Queenborough on September 22, 1914. (_Times_, September
23, 1914.) "... With one accord they spoke in terms of praise, both of
their treatment in Germany and of the kindness shown to them on the
journey.... 'We have received kindness everywhere,' said one of a party
from Dantzig. 'The Germans have been absolutely stunning to us.... I
have not heard of one English person being molested anywhere in
Germany.'" The Englishwomen did noble work on their part, especially for