Arizona republican., 1917-09-03

left I sent him my automobile to take him to the station. The chauffeur and footman reported to me that the police protection was inadequate, that the automobile was nearly overturned by the crowd and that men jumped on the running board and struck the am bassador and the ladies with him in the face with sticks. His train was due to leave at 1:15 D. m. At about ten minutes of one, while 1 was stand ing in my room in the embassy sur rounded by crowd of Americans Mrs. James, wife of the senator from Ken lucky, and Mrs Post Wheeler, wife of our secretary to the embassy in Japan, came to me and said they were anX- ious to get through to Japan via Siberia and did not know what to do 1 i'm mediately scribbled a note to the Rus sian ambassador, asking him to take them on the train with him This and the ladies I confided to the care of a red-headed page boy of the embassy who spoke German
 By some miracle he managed to get them to the railroad station before the ambassadors train left, the ambas- sador kindly agreed to take them with , him. His train, however, instead of going to Russia, was headed for Den mark; from there the two ladies crossed to Sweden, thence to England, and so home, it being perhaps as we'll l for them that they did not have an 1 opportunity to attempt the Siberian journey during this period of mobili- Zation.
 The Russian ambassador reciprocal ed by confiding to my care Russian princess, who had intended to go out 1 with him, but who, intimidated per haps by the scenes on the way to the station, had lost her nerve at the rail- way station and refused to depart wit the ambassador. She remained for a while and after some weeks recovered sufficient courage to make the trip to Denmark
 On the morning of the fourth of August, having received an invitation the day before, I attended at the Pal ace in Berlin. In the room where the court balls had been held in peace times certain number of the mem bers of the Reichstag were assembled. The diplomats were in a gallery on the west side of the room Soon the emperor, dresed in a field gray uni form and attended by several members or his staff and a number of ladies entered the room.
 He walked with a martial stride and glanced toward the gallery where the diplomats were assembled, as if to see now many were there. Taking his place upon the throne and standing ne read an address to the members oi the Reichstag. The members of the Reichstag cheered him and then ad- Journed to the Reichstag where the chancellor addressed them, making his famous declaration about Belgium ana stating that necessity knew nc law and that the German troops were 3 pefhapS at that moment crossing the Belglan frontier. Certain laws whicl | had been prepared with reference tC t the government of the country anC Whlch 1 will give in more detail il another place as well as the war credit were voted upon by the Reichstag Tn, oociallsts had not been present in tn falace, but joined now in voting tn necessary credits.
 SIT Edward Goschen Asks for His
 Passports
 On the afternoon of the fourth o August 1 went to see Von JagoW t try to pick up any news. The Britisl ambassador sat in the waiting room q the foreign office. Sir Edward told m that he was there for the purpose q asking for his passports. He spoke i English, Of course, and I am sure tha
 ne was overheard by a man sitting i the room who looked to me like
 German newspaper man, so that I wa not surprised when, late in the after noon extra sheets appeared upon tn street announcing that the British Am
 bassador had asked for his passport and that Great Britain had declare war.
 At thls news the rage of the popula
 ton Of Berlin was indescribable. Tn foreign office had believed, and thi bellef had percolated through all class
 es Tn the capital, that the English wer so occupied with the Ulster rebellio
 and unrest in Ireland that they woul
 not declare war.
 After dinner I went to the station
 say good-by to the French ambassa
 dor, Jules Cambon The route frol
 the French embassy to the Branden
 burg Thor to the Lehrter railway sta
 ton was lined with troops and polio
 so that no accident whatever occurre
 There was no one at the station eN
 cept a very inferior official from tf
 German foreign office. Cambon w;
 in excellent spirits and kept his ner,
 and composure admirably. His famil .v luckily, were not in Berlin at the tin
 of the outbreak of the war. Cambo