Show EHLIN IN gc to city aflame wilh ceaf fichu i when war is D blenda alf flost emperor loutitt cou received PI with a audits at 00 barlit stern an deale Inc r pick ordinary L ife of met opal not Nor norai yI 1 EMPLE london dr ii l secretary of the ul ila P acu union of S auth africa in london from berlin bas just 1 20 te resting story of and tells since tbt war bega conditions or doctor P it labor leaders wile wall south africa depo arted several months I 1 connection with wim the c there general S lle lie was in berlin after the outbreak tor for six alx n of at war and t rather exciting time slowly to england 11 he ma making said ing his 1 I left berlin ten daya day fay just ago ana T arrived in the german england I 1 my ay 64 gair i capital will wil I 1 ibe be table gy am so I 1 crowded has it be V vid a add great event S at the ris risk it at 0 m my Y lial life e I 1 1 left ef t B J with my wife and with ch children dr e n 0 oab SIU date ate with a dutch pa passport as dort I 1 hail wp lucky enough to obtain help of my knowl knowledge edge of 0 the dia WN language and through the kindne a foreign a ambassador I 1 managed BALI slip over the border in into ll a holland olland B known when it became known that thatah inere many had declared war tile the wh 1 1 berlin was aflame with an enort e enthusiasm the streets streeta were de with marching throngs singing f ey evi patriotic bongs bangs of the fatherland who making their way to the kaiser kai sers ia ace it looked as it if the tha whole are I 1 had gone gohe mad there was at that time a c hafid dally belief that great britain would H a d main neutral just after great brime inari had bad entered the conflict I 1 was aboa hoi that no british subject would be beb the e lowed to leave the country and I 1 w T n to report myself every day to the f ped lice I 1 had in roy my posses possession sto n an E EJ hay hav lish passport which I 1 had taken a the only two hours before england 1 JH her ultimatum to germany m roll nil during rny my enforced stay la in m abo capital I 1 saw the entrance of the w 17 ser the kal kalser serta ln and the crown arh ha ba with his wife and the princes fit taj tal all I 1 potsdam it was a scene of the w H 19 y est enthusiasm the picture of 0 W 10 emperor Is a vivid memory lie he j 27 not bow once in acknowledgment B gri gr the shouts of the crowd the cron cro wi prince and his wife nodded and aall qu continually but the emperor sat VH hi one hand band at his golden helmet ea and inscrutable a figure of dest ill hi there was not during the whole ift tb fh the faintest nicker flicker of 0 a smile gl scenes very different from chev occurred on the arrival of the re refuge fuget cg from eastern prussia in consequent cons equen H of 0 the russian hussian advance they ea calib I 1 in thousands rich and poor alike alllen 11 packed in freight cars care with all the C belongings tn in small handbags or bt bibau dies the women and children we crying their arrival created a ve bad impression in berlin and gaff rise to alarming speculations that th jhb russians would be in berlin bea betone they were expected V meanwhile Alean while the ordinary life of city was not quite normal althous tho the authorities did their best beat to kee keet it so food prices were regulated by t the government as one step to kee oft panic from my house bouse I 1 could set B zeppelins zeppelina Zepp elins and aeroplanes aero planes continually circling overhead nearly all the tram trac conductors had gone to the war anil and the trams were equipped with warned conductors chiefly wives of the con script tram men it must be said that the organist organ lia tion and equipment of the germao german army anny Is remarkable and the tion went like clockwork there Is a feeling of cocksureness about victory victor in berlin the people feel that bel glum gium was stupid not to allow germany to march through and that the severe punishment inflicted la Is quite just |