The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1916-02-11
i'y CHARLES =. STEWART
United Press Stan Correspondent,

United Press Stan Correspondent,
THE HAGUE. Jan. 2S.---(By mall
The Ford peace party crossed Ger.
many In u sealed train. II was very
queer trip. The peace delegates.
hcwspspermen and women and the
camp followers left Copenhagen for
The Hague Friday morning. They
reached the Dutch capital twenty.six
hours later pretty nearly dead. for
not much sleeping had been done on
the trip and the newspapcrmen at
least. had had very little for several
nights before.
The night before the mission left
Copenhagen the business stan gave
out tickets emitting the expeditions
leaders. like Louis p. I.ochuer. Nine.
RoSikI Schwimmer. Ellis o. Jones.
and u few others. and likewise the
peace delegates. TO seat reservations
on the train. II was announced that
the hated newspaper contingent
would have to hang on any old place.
This did not surprise the correspond.
cnts. They had expected II. Nor
did II surprise the favored ones. They.
too. expected II.
There was u surprise In store. how
ever. II anybody ever was cordially
hated. the peace party was hated by
the expeditions business manage
mcni. The correspondents had no
reservations. 10 be sure. 40 they went
whers the business management sent
them. on the station platform. A nice.
liberal allowance Of arst cissa. we'll
heated. comfortably upholstsssd com.
part ments had been saved for them
and into these they piled at the bust.
ness management's order.
Tho peace crowd hunted their res
ervations. They were In a string oi
third class coaches at the rear. cold
IN u barn and about an comfortable
M an American cattle car. The cor
respondents went aft at intervals and
gave tho peace party the haw.haw.
Il was uncharitable. but the corres-
pondents had not always been charit-
ably treated by the peace delegates.
The delegates tried once TO rush
the correspondents end Of the train
The attempt was q failure. Blows
were exchanged. The correspondent
resoiute attitude was suficient. Some
herd words were exchanged. how
ever. Later several bottles OF cham.
payne circulated In newspaper circles
II was supposed popularity that they
came from Gaston Plaintiff. business
director q: the tour after Henry
fords departure.
There are Two ferries te,r ten Cop
euhaxen and the German Rattle sea.
port Of Warnemuede. Tho crst Ia
about niten minutes: ths no. enc two
hours.
Lunch IL served on both. but Plain
tn had arranged 70 pay for II only
on the second. from 0jsdssr to War
nemuede. Unhappily few members
OF the party had not understood this
20, lunches on the hrst boat end had
70 settle their own bills. This wa
the one tragedy Of the journey.
Al Warnemuede the party stepped
from tho ferry onto platform with
q train At one side. the boat at q sec
ond, water at . third and . Gordon
OF German soldiers at the fourth and
last. Lochner called out the mem
bers' names In alphabetical order
and a. each name was called. its ow
ner stepped forward. presented ht'
passport to q German otacer and en-
tered the train. He entered at th'
rear door and went forward. Oni'
tnat ono door was open, The other
were locked and guarded. For al
that, the Germans were exceedins''
courteous.
| Stories were current that every
body would be stripped and searched
In fact. Lieutenant Governor Bethe
OF South Carolina. who did not MAX
tho trip with the Ford party. bu
alone. was forced to take on ever
stitch OF clothing and even had III
toes pried apart to be sure there wer
no incriminating documents betwee
them. Nothing OF this kind happen
cd to any member OF the Ford party
The nearest approach there was {
search was an hour or two out q
warnsmusds when German civilia
came through the train. polste'
showed his credentials and took
very profunctory glance inside To-
valisss. He did not look IN al. tn
trunks we're not touched. There wa
no personal search whatever. NJ
Q question was asked. Prsviousl'
however, an elaborate warning IN
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