the fugitives from East Prussia. "One Sunday we fed and clothed 290 who
had come in without a rag to their backs."

"I was arrested in Berlin as a Russian spy, because a bomb had been
found in the house next to mine, and because a woman in the street said
that she had seen me putting bombs in my hat-box, and that she had seen
me with a Russian. I did, as a matter of fact, know a Russian student,
but he was not the man she meant. I was taken to the police station and
searched twice in the same day. They kept me in prison for two days and
nights, giving me very bad food, and then they released me because they
had no real evidence against me. When I came out, strangely enough it
was German people who gave me hospitality until I was able to leave
Berlin."

Again, "The German women are crazy over our Scottish troops and their
kilts. Some of them used to go out and give the prisoners cigarettes,
chocolates and flowers, but that has been forbidden now."

A party of 178 who landed at Folkestone had varying stories to tell.
"Nothing could possibly be better than the treatment we have received,"
said one, "everybody--official, police and public--treated us with the
greatest kindness and the utmost courtesy." "The Germans are brutes,
absolute brutes," said another. Probably a third, who described both
statements as exaggerations, came nearer the average truth. One of this
same party described the kilts referred to above as causing matronly
indignation in Berlin.[67]

In the _Times_ of September 24, 1914, appeared a letter on the subject
of English exiles in Berlin:

I have read with interest and approval the statements of
Englishwomen who have returned from Germany, as reported in the
_Times_ to-day, with regard to the conduct of the German people.
As one of the party which arrived at Queensborough by the
special boat, I wish publicly to express my warm appreciation
not only of the considerate treatment which the people of Berlin
showed towards English people there, but particularly to the
splendid services rendered to us by the American Embassy, which
made all the arrangements for our return, and by the Consular
and municipal authorities in Holland, who supplied us with food
during our journey through that country.

May I add that I went about in Berlin as freely as I can now in
London, and that at no time since the outbreak of the war have I
seen a single British sub