Show GERMANS IVIA MAKE KE STRICT SEARCH amazing thoroughness with which travelers are handled at border SOLES RIPPED HIPPED FROM SHOES fountain pens emptied and probed clothes carefully examined der rays of powerful light many questions asked london there Is 19 no miracle of 0 german thoroughness more amazing than the search to which travelers have to submit on entering germany this border search Is described in a london newspaper by a correspondent of tho the russian Ilus pap paper or retch who has just performed td teat flat ot of entering germany at Warn emundo and staying somo some time in herlan ile ho says tile tho passengers are taken on snore shore in single file and directed to a shed we enter a largo large compartment partitioned off by wooden bars bare into a series of long stalls our passports are taken away from us and we are admitted one by one into tho ilia next compartment part ment through a special door bombarded with questions 1 I am admitted into a small room where behind the counter aro are three german a lieutenant and two subs at list first come the usual questions name where why and then what la Is your profession 1 I 1 name a certain branch ol of bustness business which I 1 choso chose to represent you are going to germany on business yes yea 11 with what arma and in what towns do you hil annd doing business 1 I give guvo tho the naces and addresses of B afew few firms an energetic lieutenant reaches from one of the ilia numerous shelves a directory and checks my statement 11 out where havo have you boen been living recently decently lecent ly 1 11 I give the ilia namo name of a neutral country I 1 illow how long havo have you lived there 1 I 1 reply and whence aro are you proceeding from Oer germany many 1 I namo name a town in another country and what Is your pernin permanent nent address 1 I again give a n reply without saying a word tile the lieutenant hands to tho ilia cal calvain tain a taw few I 1 recognize their red bindings YOU vou say you have lived so BO many years at N can you tell me where you lived there 1 I name a street and tile the number of a I 1 know to exist in N but where I 1 have never lived you know of course the street Y ya can you tell me what the square at the end of 0 it la Is called 1 I give the necessary reply I 1 have to tell the whereabouts of the post office the palace such and such a theater shops and statues now will you follow me says one of tile the lieutenants and guides mo me to a corridor along both sides of which run cubicles we enter one of tho the cubicles soles ripped off will you havo have the goodness to undress but first of all please take off your boots the lieutenant balies the boots and hands them over to ft a soldier have no fear wo we shall rip them open and take oft the heels but we will sew them up again and return in good condition all my body right down to my feet and nails Is carefully inspected by means of an electric lamp tho the lining of my suit to Is all ripped open but la Is not sown up again tho the contents contenta ot of my pockets tire are carefully examined the lieutenant takes his glasses and looks through my passport opens my watch looks at its mechanism roads reads the trade mark of the manufacturers and then takes my fountain pen pours pour a out tho the ink and probes its inside with I 1 a hatpin what can one hide there I 1 asked have you never seen pennants pendants pon pend danta ants rings and other things you hold them up to the light and through a tiny little point you see highly magnified views of cathedrals of mountains or of towns etc well you can do the same with any document reduce it photographically and carry it at the bottom of your fountain pen my boots were brought in and indeed on the ilia soles one could see sea now neat 1 I breathe freely once more dress and go on the ilia platform |