Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-28

they passed, through the city of Ulin,
which was fortified. and as soon as the
train stopped the door Of their COM
partment was opened by an officer,who
took them in custody and Immediately
took them before another officer. who
opened their baggage. made an inspec-
ton of their papers and upon finding
they were Americans, furnished SOL
der to escort them to a hotel and sent
their baggage to them. Such occur
ences happened at several places, he
stated, and while they were subjected
as were others, to military rules, the
treatment they received was courteous
from the officers and The German peo-
pie in general.
Upon arriving at Bremen. they call
ed on the American consul. who ad-
vised them to stay there and not at
tempt to cross the border as he did
not think any ships would leave Hol-
land as the English channel was mined
and blocked by English ships. Deter
mined to get through, however, they
proceeded to the town OF Bundy, some
20 kilometers from the Holland line.
Here they found the railroad track had
Deen TGUlONtu " LliC bOANCA' ~ASe"A>
their baggage and passports were ex-
amined and approved and securing
team they we're driven to Neuschantz,
the first railroad station across the
border and from there had no difficulty
in reaching Rotterdam, the trains be-
ing operated on schedule time. They
found that the Holland army was be-
ing modified to protect the frontier.
but that the country was neutral and
but little feeling manifested. At Rot
terdam they found the Holland Amerl-
can line steamship. Noordam, to sail
the following Saturday and after con-
siderable difficulty they secured f1rst-
class state room on the steamer. They
then spent the remainder of their time
seeing Holland and visited The Hague
and the peace Palace" now consid-
cred a joke, and where some visitor
has written in bold letters on the wall,
For Rent"
A pleasant trip across the water is
reported by Mr.. Johnson, the only ex-
element being in passing through the
English channel They passed English
and French warships near Dover and
were halted by an English ship An
O11cer came Oh DOdiQ anu ISL uNICd
the captain how to proceed through the
channel in order to avoid the mines.
On board their ship. he stated. was the
German ambassador, Count Won Berns-
torff, with his attendants, but no one
knew they were on board until after
the channel trip was over and their
names did not appear on the passen-
ger list The steamer, carried more
than double the number of passengers
usually handled on account of so many
taking advantage of the chance to get
home On board were 367 first class
passengers, 429 second class passen-
gers and S37 steerage passengers, a
total of 1928.
Business Is Paralyzed.
In Germany. Mr.. Johnson states.
business is paralyzed. At many places
through which they passed they found
stores closed and factories silent.
Women were operating plants wherev-
er possible at a limited capacity. but
the wheels of industry were stilled
and the clanSing of armor and the
marching of men was substituted for
the hum of machinery. The entire en-
pire is a1ame with the war spirit, said
MT Johnson, and the change from civil
law to martial rule was effected with
in "a hours without the slightest con-
Fiction He found every man called
into the army knew where he was 60
ing and what he had to do.
Eight million men were put into the
ranks without confusion. The mill
tary trains moved forward on regular
time and he found the German soldiers
imbued with a stirring spirit of pa
triotism, happy and singing patriotic
songs and having for their battle cry
ION to Paris"
From what he could learn of the
German plans, Mr.. Johnson, states that
the bulk of forces is being hurled
against the French and English anc
but little attention is being paid to
the cars forces, except to block theil
way and prevent them from reaching
Berlin until after the French and Eng
lish forces are beaten, when they vii
send their forces against the Russian
army.
Mr.. johnson states that Of course
there are some Americans stranded II
Europe. At Berne, while he was there
some 800 held meeting to discuss thu
situation with the result that they fel
they had better remain there until sen
for by Uncle Sam. Most of those un
able to get out were parties who wer'
seeing Europe on some special tour OF
a small amount of money and he de
clares that some amusing scenes oc
cured as parties appealed to thei
guides to get them home at once.
Regarding the war, Mr.. johnson
would make no predictions. He de
plores the affair and coming fresh from
the scenes and seeing the flower o
manhood of Germany going to the from
to fight. declares that the result coul
not be otherwise than to set the coun
try back for years. injure every indus
try and place upon it burden tina
will require a long time to overcome.