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Show IE1I SAILOR ' ROUGrlLYHANDLED Warrant Officer Hardy Finally Fi-nally Reaches Copenhagen From Constantinople. COPENHAGEN, Feb. 15, via London, o p. m. Warrant Officer Hardy of the American gunboat ScorpioD, station ship at Constantinople, arrived here last night from Constantinople after an experience ex-perience of arrests, detentions and trinls covering the period since the announcement announce-ment of unrestricted warfare, tlardy left Constantinople January 30, and, as he was wearing a uniform, was the object ob-ject of suspicion from the outset. He was taken from the train at Sofia, Budapest and Vienna, but in each instance in-stance was permitted to proceed. When he fell into the hands of the German authorities at Dresden, however, he was detained in a military prison for three days. Thence he was forwarded to secret se-cret service headquarters at Berlin. After an investigation he was permitted per-mitted to proceed to Warnemuude. where lie was again detained before being be-ing put on board the ferry for Denmark. Den-mark. The Germans apparently feared he might be carrying information, for he was subjected to the full course of acid washings and other scientific methods meth-ods of detecting communications written writ-ten in synthetic ink. His uniform and effects were searched in the most thorough manner. Hardy is the only exception, so far as is known here, to the German rule for the detention of Americans. Aside from those on tjie train which carried members of the staff of the American embassy at Berlin, no Americans are known to have crossed the Danish frontier fron-tier since the arrival of the Associated Press correspondent here from Berlin last Sunday, |