count of what I saw and heard is compiled from letters
and diaries which I wrote day by day on the spot. Some of my
experiences have had to be omitted for diplomatic reasons, and it has
been necessary, in some cases, to give information without mentioning
my authority. The higher the rank and the greater the reputation of my
informant, the less right have I to mention his name.

Although my personal sympathies are with the French, I tried to
observe dispassionately and accurately, and have scrupulously aimed to
present my facts uncolored by preference or prejudice. In war,
exaggeration and misrepresentation play an accepted part in the
tactics of belligerents, but it should be the aim of a neutral to
observe with an unbiased mind, no matter what the state of his
emotions may be. Otherwise, the data he collects can have no value as
historical material.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY 3

II.--THE GERMANS NEARING PARIS 42

III.--WITH THE BRITISH ARMY. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE
OF THE MARNE 68

IV.--THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE 82

V.--ANALYSIS OF THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE 126

VI.--THE BATTLE OF THE AISNE 153

VII.--THE AMERICAN AMBULANCE 174

VIII.--GERMANY AND BERLIN 203

IX.--CARRYING DISPATCHES FROM BERLIN TO LONDON 234

X.--VIENNA 247

XI.--HUNGARY 256

XII.--A GERMAN PRISON CAMP 288

APPENDIX 303

THE NOTE-BOOK OF AN ATTACHE

CHAPTER I

AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY

_Paris, Tuesday, August 4th._ I presented myself at the American
Embassy today and offered my services to Mr. Herrick. They were
promptly accepted. I was put to work with such suddenness that no time
was spent in determining my official status. I cannot say whether I am
a doorman or an Attache. At present the duties of the two seem to be
identical.

Now, as in 1870, the German Embassy in leaving France turned over its
affairs and the interests of German subjects remaining i