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Show Miscellany Getting Out of Germany. The examination which one has to undergo un-dergo when entering or leaving Ger-j Ger-j many is very stringent and trying, and ' as the war continues is gradually becoming be-coming more rigid. When I went into Germany in 1015 via Bentheim, and came out again by the same route, my j examination was reasonably thorough, but this year, going into Germany and coming out via Warnemunde, were revelations rev-elations of examination of luggage and of person, carried to a point beyond which it would bo almost impossible to conceive. As the examination is made stricter and stricter from time to time, and as it is also changed, whenever it is found that spies try to smuggle cipher dispatches dis-patches in new and hitherto unsuspected ways, I will describe my personal experiences ex-periences coming out of Germany via Warnemunde, and also relate, as they differed from mine, the experiences of other Americans who came out at the same time. Having been told that no one was allowed to take out either printed or written matter, and also having heard that there was much trouble, about photographs, pho-tographs, I took all my books, photographs pho-tographs and manuscripts to the Ger-mau Ger-mau foreign office. There everything was carefully examined by Assessor Roediger, done up in one package and sealed in several places. I received a letter signed by Baron von Munn, head of the press department of the foreign office, asking the frontier authorities to pass the sealed package without opening it. My request for a letter asking tho frontier authorities to pass me and my belongings ' ' with as little trouble as possible" was refused, and I was told that such letters were no longer given. A friend of mine who had come in to Germany a few days before told me that on reaching Warnemunde tickets "were given out and that passengers were examined ex-amined in the order of the number on I heir ticket; so I arranged matters with the conductor of the train from Bern. He told me where to stand just before we reached Warnemunde, pointed out to mo, when we arrived, the man who gave out the tickets and I received No. 1. I had with me a large trunk, two grips and a hat box, and my experience coming into Germany led me to believe that unless I was well up in the line I might possibly be held over in Warnemunde Warne-munde until the following day. As the steamer I planned to take for the United States sailed from Copenhagen the next day, it was essential that I should not I be detained. Entering a building right by the train, i I was told to go through a long room, ! and was halted at tho door of another j room and asked to produce my pass-I pass-I port. After it had been carefully scru j tiuized I was passed into another room. There I found a porter with, my grips and hat box, and I was asked to identify iden-tify my trunk. All my luggage was then placed on a wooden bench, and an officer and snbofficer came over to take charge of the examination. Fortunate-lv Fortunate-lv for me the snbofficer had lived in New York for eight years, and not only spoke English very well, but was also inclined to be friendly. I was informed Jvhat everything would be examined and that ail my things must be taken out of my grips and t rank as well ; moreover, more-over, I was told that I must take out and put back the things myself. I never ack my trunk; it had been1 1 packed by tho chambermaid at the ; : Hotel P.ristnl on Uuter der Linden, and 1 when I left Warnemunde its anpear- '' ance becr'ard description. ' All my ; handkerchiefs, collars, shirts, drawers j ' and socks were examined, one bv one, ; : to see whether any concealed panel's could be located or whether anything ! was written on or sewed into them. ! Ha ndkerehiefs were entirely unfolded. 1 shirts, drawers and socks were turned ! inside out. ami alwavs there was a careful and persistent search. Every crease was examined. My soap was cut in pieces and a stick of camphor ice that bad been cut in two places when 1 came into Germany, was cut in! another place. First the grips were . examined, and then the hatbox; then,; t ray .by t rn y , everything in the trunk was gone over. .My boots and slippers were examined with great care, and, fortunately, I had no boots that had been recently resoled or reheelcd, otherwise other-wise they might have been ripped apart. This, 1 was told, is frequently done. Coming into Germany the examining oflicer had torn out the stand in my hatbox, on which the hat rested. I had this fixed in Berlin,' but I might better have waited until 1 returned to New York-, because, as it was impossible for him to get his hands between the stand on whic"h the box rested and the side of the box, the examiner simply tore the stand out. Tho band of my silk hat was pushed up to see whether anything any-thing was concealed uudcrneath, and the cushion for brushing the hat was ripped open. My evening hat was opened. Although Al-though it was bought in the United States, it seems that it had been made in Paris, and, as that fact was stamped inside, I had a feeling that it did not lessen t lie care with which it was examined. ex-amined. In the bottom of my trunk there were about a dozen summer shirts. I had not worn them since the previous summer, and each had a piece of cardboard placed in it when laundered laun-dered in order to hold the shirt in shape. The cardboard was taken out of each shirt and laid aside. - This completed the examination of my luggage, and I was then told to go with another suboflicer and submit to a personal examination. I was directed to go into a compartment and was told to take off all my clothing except my undershirt. I was also told to take everything out of my pockets and put it on a shelf. Bank notes were unfolded, un-folded, one by one, to see that there was no tissue between ; my match safe was opened, so was a small metal case that 1 carry my subway tickets in. The outer and inner cases of my watch were opened. Tho pockets of my topcoat, top-coat, coat, waistcoat and trousers were turned inside out, and fingers passed over every seam. My boots anil socks, drawers and shirt ' received the same careful attention previously accorded those in my trunk. The band around the hat I wore was pushed up and the sweatbanrj was turned down. Next I was handed a paper to sign, stating that everything had been returned re-turned to me, and I was told that my examination was over. Although I had the No. 1 ticket, I was next to the last allowed to go on board the steamer waiting to take us to Denmark; this was on account of the fact that most of the people carried little luggage with them. The last passengers to come on board were an American lady and her daughter, daugh-ter, who had lived in' Germany for six years whilo the daughter was completing complet-ing tier musical education. They had with them a number of photographs of friends and relatives, and the picture-were picture-were all soaked in water until they could be removed from the cardboard on which they were mounted. One woman had her back rubbed with a lenlon in order to wash off anything that, might be written on it. All the women had to undress and take down their hair. All children, even infants in j arms, are undressed and examined with : tho utmost thoroughness when there is ! the least suspicion of those with whom they arc traveling. 1 The examination of suspected women is, of course, conducted by women: inspectors, in-spectors, and I was told that cipher dispatches dis-patches written on oil paper have sometimes some-times been discovered, and that the examination ex-amination is rigid in tho extreme. In fact, American women who consider going go-ing to Germany before tho end of the war must make up their minds in advance ad-vance that they may possibly be subjected sub-jected to an examination that to many Would be humiliating. New York Times. |