The Alaska daily empire., 1914-11-05

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 "rho feeling in England is very strong. end John Bulls appreciation of Che psychology of the mob is ev- idenced bg one Incident in London. When we were being escorted from southampton ,o London proper by a guard of soldiers numbering some nf- ty or more, we saw ln tho streets Q couple of Englishmen dressed up as Germans, wooden shoes and an, who were paradlng for she Sole purpose Of stirsing up public feeling and mourning the greater wFath of the masses against the Germans
 .Finaliy the necessary red tape was wound up aud ] started ngain on my way to Hamburg Usually the fare is about twenty-five dollars, but I soon found that thousand dol lars wouldn't set D boat to thread it's way among the mined passagea of che North sea to my destination, and b was forced to 90 to Cherbourg, France. and then 50 by way Of Hayre to Antwerp, and from there to Kant burg. Accordingly i booked on ? small steamer for the French port. The French officials evidently did not care to have us tarry long-they are afraid of everybody these days, and aren't taking any chances. We were hustled into trains as soon as our papers had been inspected and hurried off to Antwerp. At leas. we started in a hurry. Our train was stopped every hour or so and exam ined with tho most minute care. Ger man newspapers were decidedly con traband and the smallest scrap of German publications was confscated with great haste.
 q got to Antwerp in the morning, and after much discussion with the Belgian officials, learned that ] would again be detained. ] was put under guard again, as we had been in Lon don. but this time 1t was an entirely different story. Being an American citizen I was permitted to so about the city more or less, though of course not near any of the fortifca- tions. 1 reached Antwerp while the hottest fighting was taking place at Liege and Namur and every day of my stay l saw trainload after train load of wounded and battered sol diers brought into the hospitals of Antwerp. With the true Americ. n spirit had gone forth with my East man postcard-size' in which 1 had several films left on Q ten.exposure roll When l took 1t out and pre- parerd to take a snap of one os these trains the camera and all of my films was promptly connscated and l caught 9 farewell glimpse of my cher Ished, but undeyeloped. pictures dis appearing in the secrecy of an off. clal uniform.
 "The streets of Antwerp were thronged with women and children, and old men, who with their house hold goods done up in bundles were trudging wearily and panic-stricken into France, to ship for England and safety. Public lunch counters were scattered throughout the city, every where. and one could see at almost any time of day or night Q throng of women and little children waiting in line for something to eat The officials arc constantly on the lookout for spies. We were forced to show our papers every day. If q stranger turned up and had no evidence to prove that he was not in the em- ploy of the Germans he was treated as Q spy, and either shot or impris- oned at once. Two fellows were caught not far from one of the lunch counters, were proven spies and in- stantly shot
 After fifteen days waiting in Ant werp for the officials to satisfy them- selves that I was neither German, nor in German employ and that had no particular leanings in the direction of the German cause, l was permitted to go on 70 Hamburg. From there J shipped on a Danish steamer for Got tenborg and home.
 Home certainly looked good to me, too found the whole country mobil- izing, getting ready for the time when Germany will declare war against Sweden in order to get a base whero she can handle the English and Rus. sians together. It will be Q very simple process when tt comes, and all Sweden is preparing for it. Sweden is anti-Germar, and when tue Kais- CT demands that her people help him against England she will refuse. That will be all he wants. He will de- clare war against Sweden and pro ceed to land troops on the southern coast of Sweden, which he can accom- plish from three different points on the main coast. Russia is too weak to offer any important resistance in that direction, but England will undoubted- ly take hand there, too.