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Show FORD PEACE PARTY REACHES THE HAGUE Every Courtesy Shown the Americans While Passing-Through Passing-Through Germany. (Special Coble by Arrangement with ly-mAon DniVf Telegraph anil International News Service. THK HAGUE, Jan. 8. The Ford peace party arrived here today, after parsing t Jirou.g-h Germany on the way from iScandina via. It was the. firt tourift train which had passed acro.se German soil Rince the beginning be-ginning of the war. Marvelous efficiency was shown hy (lie railroad officials. The train arrived two hours ahead of schedule sched-ule time. The efficiency demonstrated hy the Germans Ger-mans amazed the peace pari y. Ev-ry courtesy was shown the Americans. Officers Offi-cers were socially inclined nd c'nat 1 ed payly with the touriFts. Soldiers ;md civilians also pa the red around t he train at the few stops to talk through the windows. win-dows. A warm reception was piven the party here. After tho peace work and conferences confer-ences which are scheduled for ! he next few days, the party, or at l.jst the. majority, ma-jority, will sail from Rotterdam on January Janu-ary 15. Some of the comments of German officers offi-cers who chatted with members of the party are IDurnlnatinp upon the attitude of t lie Germans toward tbs war. "I wi) you success." pa!d a lieutenant. "Don 'I t a ke all the peacp !a-k to America. We wfiiii some over here," was a Junior's comment. Th'-re were no sipns of war to be observed ob-served In Genua nv, ecpf 1 1 int t roop were to he seen at every st:uinn and an o'-casionrt Red Cros train pns'-'fd. Tb' peace crusaders couid hp" 'he wonji'ifd and the opra ri nc room upon the t rains through tli" windows. The food was sood htiI plentiful. Titer was little meat to he h;id, but biead and other staples wre plentiful. Only four stops were mad in Gnnany. A dinins: car. tiie (lrt lo le run put" f ho war started, was attached to the tra In. Xo representative of the American kov-crnment kov-crnment was on hand lo prou-ct rh train or meet the tourists. A3 a tr.altpr ot ffl ct . none whs necesa ry. Nor.e of t he prreons aboard was rtermi 1 1 d to step from the --ars wi-.ile in Gnnnny. Hamburg, where the train str-pppd for a time, d I splay ed the nv'st i r. t r t the party. A larp crowd cair-H to peer in at the windows a nd :' ha n,'C conversation. |