New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-30
Courtesy of Officials and
Flashes of Country I'M
pressed Pacifists.
DELEGATES SUBJECT
TO LITTLE TROUBLE
SURPRISED by Cursory Examina'
tions-ExcelIent Food Made
Up for Lack of Sleep.
re- THEODORE n. POCKMAN.

The Hague. Jan. "a long black
nigbt of rafting through the rain, ire
quent flashes of wet towns and y'lio"
street lights, weird early morning
rai, u, n welcome border stat on sinoK-
inc With things 10 eat, while a handiul
Of landsturm looked on, three ccei'
for the businesslike Lieutenant VINO
waved farewell, snatch OF Sleep 10
arakon in green Holland with the sun
flashing on the canals this IS JUN
bled impression OF member NJ the
first batch of American tourists 20 cross
Germany since August, 1914 inc r'''
Peace Expedition.
The Lord sent the rain. but the Ter
mans arranged everything e'se. ing
sent the special train through Dy hlFn'.
thev proyided It with an abundance OF
food. they assigned afable oihcers 70
the task Of conducting as strange cor
lection Of persons az ever crossed apy
countrv. and they waived the usua'
atrict regulations concerning the exam
NATION Of persons and luggage. Ihey
Gained what they evidently desired
distinctly favorable impression o' Ger
many from people who saw p-icNcaiIy
nothing OF IT,
German Coast Appears.
Leaving Copenhagen by special Tram
=. O o'c,ock on the morning OF January
7 the pilgrims found the journey south
"a Giedser uneventful. At that Danish
nor, they boarded the steam Terry IN
tho carly afternoon, had luncheon, ana
inst as Il was growing dusk IA" the
German coast appear out OF the ram
and mist. From then on the par'y re-
sembled boatload OF Immigrants
going 20 Ellis Island.
As the gangplank was swung 20 'he
deck at Warnemunde German major
with an iron cross pinned 70 MS service
orav uniform boarded the craft ana
assigned two aids 10 collect the pass
ports as the pilgrims went ashore. ne
nressure soon became too great, so the
partv was allowed 10 land 1nd stand
within certain lines patrolled by SOL
diers Then one vestibule OF the tram
which stood on the dock was opened
and as the aids called the names OF
the pilgrims in alphabetical order they
surrendered their passports ana
mounted the steps to hunt for a com
partment not won by names beginning
with A, Il or {.
Sleeping Cars Scarce.
I, was dark before the train got
under way in charge of the short,
stern-looking major with the iron
cross. Il was as comfortable as the
circumstances could permit. Owing TO
the scarcity of sleeping cars, due 70
their use in transporting wounded
only three were attached to the Pill
erims special. There were six day
coaches and one diner IN addition.
Several printed notices posted IN
conspicuous places in the cars imme-
diately attracted the delegates atten-
tTon. One read: SOLDIERS. Guari
YOUR tongues we'll, There may be
SPIES" Another gave certain rules re,
gardng food, including: Regard
bread as holy; dry bread makes a good
supper Do not eat between meals.
and always eat as sparingly as pos
sible. Do not feed animals anything
that can possibly be used for human
beings. Cultivate every inch Of
ground and raise vegetables. Use
sugar. Do not eat preserved fruits
when fresh are obtainable. By such
economies you can help
While three German officials were
busy I'm a compartment checking up the
passports with the greatest care. the
major went through the train chatting
IN a very friendly manner with the dele
gates who spoke German. He had been
IN the German army for fifty years, and
wore long service as well as personal
bravery decorations. Since the begin
ming of the war he had fought on the
western front. and he was absolutely
confident of the power of the German
ermy. "All is going we'll" WAS his sat
isfed declaration.
After their first surprise at not be
ing examined at the entry port, Warne-
munde, the pilgrims were again sur
prised to have the German officers &C
companying the party make a cursory
examination Of each piece of hand lug
gage in the compartments. Nothing
was found OF any suspicious character
and no trouble ensued, due TO the fact
that the pilgrims had been so thor
oughly scared By the warning of their
own administration that they would
be left to their fate If they disre-
garded orders. Some, in fact, threw
books into the Baltic before landing on
German soil.
No Examination at Bentheim.
The third surprise came later, at the
Bentheim frontier station, where no
examination of any kind was made. II
was here that the pilgrims firmly be-
leved they would have to strip and
have even their clothes examined.
This procedure vas entirely done away
with, much 70 the general relief, but
the announcement was not made until
the pilgrims had waited in expectation
for an hour.
About o'clock on that same evening
the lights OF Hamburg appeared
through the wet windows. and soon the
special halted in the Hauptbanhof for
a very few minutes. There were, per-
haps, fifty persons on another platform
waiting for a train. The huge station,
always so busy in times of peace,
seemed strangely deserted for so early
in the evening. The city itself as seen
from the train appeared as any city
does or a dark, rainy night. The
weather saw TO it that the pilgrims
received no thrill from their journey
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