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Show MO TO Sit FEBRUARY 27 01 SPAN1SHVESSEL Diplomat and His Party Leave Berne for Paris; Get Joyous Sendoff From Swiss People. BERXE, Feb. 14, via Pari?, 11:40 p. m. To the accompaniment of echo ina cheers that filled Berne's railroad station, Ambassador Gerard, his staff and abou fifty other Americans departed de-parted tonight lor Paris by way of Pontadier. The departure was made the occasion of a demonstration such as Berne has not seen in a long time. The women members of the party we-re laden with beautiful cut flowers presented pre-sented by Berne friends and which ; were doubly appreciated because they had been so rare in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Gerard arrived at the railroad station and were greeted by United States Minister Stovall, Secretary Secre-tary Campbell, and their wives. Among the big crowd of prominent persons who filled the platform were members of the entente legations in Berne, English Eng-lish and French officers interned in Switzerland and as many Berne .citizens .citi-zens as could find standing room. The ambassador and his staff occupied occu-pied a first-class car on the train, and his u uof ficial traveling companions were accommodated in another first-class first-class car and one second-class coach. The arrangements were made by the Swiss government, which did everything every-thing in its power to co-operate with the American legation in providing for the comfort of the party. It was arranged ar-ranged that the' travelers should transfer trans-fer to sleepers at Pontarlier for the balance of the trip to Paris. Ambassador Gerard spent an uneventful unevent-ful .day. which was chiefly devoted to preparations for his journey. He warned one of the Americans who came to bid him farewell to bo careful about spies who might try to attach themselves to American groups following him out of Germany. Mr. Gerard specified a well-known well-known member of the Berlin American colony, who, when - the American emigration emi-gration from Berlin began, announced that he hoped to go to Switzerland immediately. |