The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-16

called out to Consul Baron Ungleter:
Here, hold my gun for a moment
Even the storm of Indignation over
the search gave way to merrinlent
when the Germans saw the consul
standing guard with the British blue
Jackets rifle and bayonet. The sailor
upon his return to his post was asked
how it felt to give his gun to an
enemy.
Il guess he replied, I'VE are all
alike in the sight of God. The Ger
mans are no worse nor better than
we are"
My turn soon came. Four soldiers
with rifle bayonets and two officers
came to my cabin. With an officer
and one guard in front and us
guards alle ec-oAu officer behind
me, was marched thru the CORR
DOR to the stairway lined with armet.
bIueJackets to the deck above. There
ten other guards with rifles sat on
each side. guarding the door to the
lnqu1sition chambers.
American Hoxis Useless
coats and vests OF, please" COM
manded Assistant Paymaster Sheerin.
Now the pants and shoes,"
Ihere l rebelled. l declared that
even we meek Americans considered
cur pants strictly private property. My
aooed assurance that nothing danger
Gus to the British lion was in mine,
was or no avail Sheerin threatened
to send for reinforcements 1 pro-
tested Indignantly, to which Sheerin
politely replied: Somehow our peo-
pie don't seem to pay much attention
| to American howls"
he then held my undershirt to the
lght IN an effort to detect writing,
looking even between the folds of the
collar. Then he sounded the soles of
my shoes and examined the rubber
heels. My experience was that of
many others. The soles of Wolf Won
Igel were bored thru for secret docu-
ments and others rubber heels were
pried off
| After two days the much armed
friction between the navy officers and
customs inspectors became evident,
especially after two customs searchers
had been taken off the ship. They
had created a commotion, resulting in
the order to close the ships bar This
evoked the loud protest of passengers
who declared that being penned like
sheep on board ship was bad enough
but that being penned thus on dry
ship would result in mutiny.
That the two customs searchers be-
came Intoxicated on duty was exceed
ingly painful to the British navy Of
! f1cers. Next all the women burst out
| IN their Indignation to Capt. Adair
Hall because customs inspectors had
gone thru their cabins and robbed"
them of their hot water bags
AS rubber is on the list of contra
| band, the Canadian inspectors carried
| out their orders to the letter, even try
| ing to take away two dozen nipples
| from DR.. Fuehr, whose infant was
among the passengers. The only threat
Dr. Fuehr made was that he would
tell the newspapermen and the result
was that two navy officers gruffly
ordered the inspector to put back the
saved nipples.
The gallant Irish commander came
| to the assistance of the ladies and en-
deavored to get the rubber water bot
/ ties back from the customs authorities
whom several naval officers charac-
| terized as a band The bags had dis
| appeared by this time, so Adair Hall
went down into his own pocket and
brought new ones and presented them
| to the women.
| During the search of the cabins of
| Count Bernstorff and Dr. Fuehr, bot
| tie of cognac disappeared from each.
The sampling passengers private stock
| also in other cabins, to determine
contra band" soon began to manifest
itself in Irish songs and jigs on deck
| by two or three customs inspectors.
Adair Hall was much distressed over