ds pay the tribute of
regarding it as equally authoritative as the purple Prussian eagle
stamped on a military pass."

Followed a two-hour dialogue in the private office of the chief of the
Kaiser's secret field police, as a result of which future historians
will find in the Kaiser's secret archives the following unique document,
couched in Berlin "detectivese" and signed and subscribed to by THE
TIMES correspondent:

Secret Field Police, Great Headquarters, Dec. 1, 1914.

There appears the American war correspondent, and at the
particular request of the authorities, explains:

On Saturday, Nov. 30, I arrived at Trier on a second-class
ticket at about 10:30 P.M. There I bought a third-class ticket
and boarded a train leaving about 11:10 P.M. and reached
Luxemburg at about 12:15 A.M. I did not go into the railroad
station, but, trusting to my papers, boarded a military train
leaving at 12:45 A.M., going over Longwy to Longuyon, where I
arrived at 3:30 A.M., Sunday. There an official whose name I
do not know took me to a troop train and made a place for me
in the brake box. I left the train at X and went on foot to H
(the Great Headquarters,) where I reported myself to the Chief
of Police.

I recommend that a sharper control be exercised on the station
platform at Luxemburg, as it is a simple matter to avoid the
only control which is at the ticket gate, by simply not going
out and therefore not having to come in.

The lot of the professional spy will be harder in the future. Meanwhile,
I expect to shake the dust of the German Great Headquarters from my
reportorial feet early tomorrow morning, for pedestrianism is not a safe
pastime in the war zone.

Story of the Man Who Fired on the Rheims Cathedral

II.

WITH THE GERMAN ARMY BEFORE RHEIMS, Dec. 5.--Eating a ham sandwich while
squinting through an artillery telescope at the cathedral and hearing
the man who fired the famous shots tell all about it was the unique
combination I experienced today, and in retrospect the ham sandwich
stands out as the most important feature, for it symbolizes the morale
of the men before Rheims.

The post of observation was in a sometime French fort, now riddled by
French shells, on the crest of a hill affording a fine panoramic view of
the city, and my sightseeing predecessors here had included the Imperial
Chancellor, von Bethmann-