d that
at every station they had to wait for orders to proceed. I
was accompanied by Major von Rheinbaben of the Alessandra
Regiment of the Guard and by a police officer. In the
neighborhood of the Kiel Canal the soldiers entered our
carriages. The windows were shut and the curtains of the
carriages drawn down; each of us had to remain isolated in
his compartment and was forbidden to get up or to touch his
luggage. A soldier stood in the corridor of the carriage
before the door of each of our compartments which were kept
open, revolver in hand and finger on the trigger. The
Russian Charge d'Affaires, the women and children and
everyone were subjected to the same treatment.

At the last German station about 11 o'clock at night, Major
von Rheinbaben came to take leave of me. I handed to him the
following letter to Herr von Jagow.

"WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1914.

"SIR:

"Yesterday before leaving Berlin, I protested in
writing to your Excellency against the repeated
change of route which was imposed upon me by the
Imperial Government on my journey from Germany.

"Today as the train in which I was passed over the
Kiel Canal an attempt was made to search all our
luggage as if we might have hidden some instrument
of destruction. Thanks to the interference of Major
von Rheinbaben, we were spared this insult. But
they went further.

"They obliged us to remain each in his own
compartment, the windows and blinds having been
closed. During this time, in the corridors of the
carriages at the door of each compartment and
facing each one of us, stood a soldier, revolver in
hand, finger on the trigger, for nearly half an hour.

"I consider it my duty to protest against this
threat of violence to the Ambassador of the
Republic and the staff of his Embassy, violence
which nothing could even have made me anticipate.

"Yesterday I had the honor of writing to your
Excellency that I was being treated almost as a
prisoner. Today I am being treated as a dangerous
prisoner. Also I must record that during our
journey which from Berlin to Denmark has taken
twenty-four hours, no food has been