Arizona republican., 1917-08-18

ting off the mail and telephone and
 in holding me for neariy a week, that 1
 would leave in a sporting spirit and I.
 therefore. had my servant telephone
 and ask whether Zimmerman and the
 chancellor would receive me.
 I had a pleasant farewell talk of
 about half an hourswith each of them
 expressly told the chancellor that
 had come to bid him a personal fare well and not to make record for any
 White book, and tha, anything he said
 would remain confidential. l aso stopped in to thank Dr. Zahn of the
 foreign office, who had arranged the
 details of our departure, and I gave him a gold cigarette case as a sou
 venir of the occasion.
 At the last moment the Germans al lowed number of the consuls and clerks who had been working in the embassy and the American residents in Berlin to leave on the train with us, so that we were about one hundred and twenty persons il. all on this train which left the Potsdamer station at S:10 in the evening. The time of our departure had not been publicly an nounced. but although the automobiles
 in front of the embassy might have attracted a crowd, there was no dem
 onstration whatever; in fact, during | this week that I was detained in Ber- lin ! walked all over the city every afternoon and evening, went into shops, and so on, without encounter ing any hostile demonstration.
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 tion to see us off-all the Spanish em- bassy, Dutch, Greeks and many of our colleagues from Central and South America. There were from the for eign office Montgelas, Dr. Roediger. Prittwitz and Horstmann. AS the train pulled out a number of the Americans left in Berlin who were on the station platform raised quite a vigorous cheer. Two officers had been sent by the imperial government to accompany us on this train, one, Major von der Hagen. sent by the general staff, and
 the other a representative of the for eign office, Baron Wernher von Ow- Wechendorf. It was 1dite thoughtful of the foreign office to send this last officer, as it was by our efforts that 1 we had secured his exchange when he was a prisoner in England, and he, therefore, would be supposed to en- certain kindly feelings for our embassy. I had ordered plenty of champagne and cigars to be put on the train. We were first invited to drink champagne with the officers in the dining car, and then they joined us in the private salon car which we occupied in the end of the train. The journey was un- eventful. Outside some of the stations a number of people were drawn up who stared at the train, in bovine
 way, but who made no demonstration of any kind.
 We went through Wurttemberg and l entered Switzerland by way of Schaff- hausen. The two officers left us at
 the last stop on the German side. had taken the precaution before we left Berlin to find out their names. and as they left us I gave each of them a gold cigarette case inscribed with his name and the date
 At the first station on the Swiss side body of Swiss troops were drawn up pltScHlli5 etllu tuC OOAOliti commanding the Swiss army (there are no generals in SwitZerland), at , tended by several staff officers, came on the train and travelled with us nearly to Zurich.
 I started to speak French to one of these staff officers, but he interrupted me by saying in perfect English, You do not have to speak French to me. My name is Ise,in, many of my rela- tions live in New York and I lived there myself some years.'
 At Zurich we left the German spe- cial train, were met on the platform by some grateful Japanese the American consul and a number of French and Swiss newspaper reporters, thus end- ing our exodus from Germany.
 Continued tomorrow