ty to get back to Berlin
without loss of time.

It appears that the first public indication of the insurrection took
place as far back as December 2, 1915, when a party of fifteen Socialist
deputies in the Reichstag, led by Karl Leibknecht, refused to vote for
the second war credits. Four of these members were from Berlin. One,
Stadthagen, represented a popular workmen's suburb in Berlin, while
another, Geyer, represented a workers' suburb in Leipsic. The Socialists
of Bremen, Stuttgart and Hamburg endorsed the Socialist Deputies'
refusal by a majority of two to one. Not only were the Socialist party
rising in revolt, but the Moderates, under Bernstein, were opposed,
because the war was entered into by Socialists exclusively as a war
against Russia, whilst the authorities had cleverly turned the reason as
a war against England. Though the Socialists may have hated England, the
war proved that they were used as a cat's paw. So riots broke out in
Berlin, Stuttgart and Hamburg.

In Berlin, down the Unter der Linden, a mighty mob of workers marched
and stoned the Government offices. The military police dispersed them.

Fate helped the revolt.

At the surrender of the German armies, thousands of German soldiers,
rather than surrender, had retreated along the roads leading into
Germany, sullenly shouting the news of the defeat.

Bad news travels fast, and to the German people, who had been kept in
ignorance of reverses, the news came with stunning effect.

Only a few days before had the authorities at Berlin announced to the
Socialists that ultimate success was certain, and bade the people be of
good cheer. Now, like a crash, came the news of defeat with the
additional disgrace of being brought by retreating soldiers of the
Empire!

Then the revolution crashed on Germany. It was a riot that rolled round
the earth.

I remember it was a week after our arrival at Liege that the armies of
the Allies began their march to the Rhine. They had not yet reached
German soil, and the Peace terms would not be disclosed till the Allies
were in Germany.

To my delight, the French army of the Argonne was given the post of
honor. It must have been a wonderful sight to see the Air Squadron of
twelve aeroplanes moving backward and forward over the heads of the
moving columns. Nap accompanied me in my 'plane, and I remember I kept
somewhat in advance of the rest to catch the first sight of Cologne
Cathedral.

It came upon the horiz