he risk of finding myself detained
in that town, if not by the action of the Austrian
Government, at least owing to the mobilization
which creates great difficulties similar to those
existing in Germany as to the movements of trains.

"Under these circumstances I must ask the German
Government for a promise made on their honor that
the Austrian Government will send me to Switzerland,
and that the Swiss Government will not close its
frontier either to me or to the persons by whom I
am accompanied, as I am told that that frontier has
been firmly closed to foreigners.

"I cannot then accept the proposal that you have
made to me unless I have the security which I ask
for, and unless I am assured that I shall not be
detained for some months outside my country.

"JULES CAMBON."

In answer to this letter on the next morning, Tuesday the
4th August, Herr von Langwerth gave me in writing an
assurance that the Austrian and Swiss authorities had
received communications to this effect.

At the same time M. Miladowski, attached to the Consulate at
Berlin, as well as other Frenchmen, was arrested in his own
house while in bed. M. Miladowski, for whom a diplomatic
passport had been requested, was released after four hours.

I was prepared to leave for Vienna when, at a quarter to
five, Herr von Langwerth came back to inform me that I would
have to leave with the persons accompanying me at 10 o'clock
in the evening, but that I should be taken to Denmark. On
this new requirement I asked if I should be confined in a
fortress supposing I did not comply. Herr von Langwerth
simply answered that he would return to receive my answer in
half an hour. I did not wish to give the German Government
the pretext for saying that I had refused to depart from
Germany. I therefore told Herr von Langwerth when he came
back that I would submit to the order which had been given
to me but "that I protested."

I at once wrote to Herr von Jagow a letter of which the
following is a copy:

BERLIN, AUGUST 4, 1914.

"SIR:

"More than once your Excellency has said to me that
the Imperial Government, in accordance with the