The Washington times., 1917-10-13
MOB KISSED
GERARD ASHE
GAVE AID TO
ENGuSHMEN
lrate Beriiners Break Windows
of Embassy and Menace
Correspondents After Break
With British.

Ambassador Gerard, t0hO, dariNe tie
four YeGrs procediH0 the decIoratSoH Of
todr, tcds IN BeTIia osd iH conStoHt
touch ScSfh GeTmdH o6atrs, has toTitteH
q vfpSd story Of his experiences. This
story TIE WoshS10ton Times tOiH pub
kSh IN daily fHStaIlments. Of tohich the
foIIo-O+ao u the ts0e1ty-eiohth. No doc1I-
Sse1t Of diplomacy t00s eveT more ,vitGi
OF more Interesting.
By JAMES W. GERARD.
American Ambassador to Germany, July q,
iSI1. to February 4, 1871.
(CopyrIEht, United States, Canada, and In
tsrnatiOnal. 1911. By the Public Ledger Col
After 1 had hidden farewell on
August % the departing French
ambassador, Jules Cambon, / went
for a walk about Berlin, soon be-
coming involved in the great crowd
in front of the British embassy on
the Wilhelmstrasse. The crowd
threw stones and other missiles and
managed to break all the windows
of the embassy.
The Germans charged afterward
that people in the embassy had in
furiated the people by throwing
pennies to the crowd. ! did not see
any occurrences of this kind. As
the Inter den Linden and the Viii
helm plaza are paved with asphalt
the crowd must have brought the
missiles which they used with them,
with the premeditated design Of
smashing the embassy windows. A
few mounted police made their ap-
pearance. but were at no time in
sufficient numbers to hold the crowd
in check.
British Correspondents Hunted.
Afterward went around to the
Unter den Linden, where there was
great crowd In front of the Hotel
Adlon. A man standing on the out
skirts Of the crowd begged me not
to 60 into the hotel, as he said the
crowd was looking for English news
paper correspondents
So threatening was the crowd to-
ward the English correspondents that
vile rang up the porter Of the en-.
bassy after we had gene TO bed, and,
not wishing to disturb US. he occupied
the lounge in the porter's rooms.
Believing that possibly the English
embassy might be in such a condition
that Sir Edward Goschen, the British
ambassador. might not care to spend
the night there, 1 ordered an automo-
bile and went up through the crowd
which still choked the Wilhelm
strasse, with Roland Harvey, the sec
ond secretary to the British embassy.
Sir Edward and his secretaries were
perfectly calm and politely declined
the refuge which 1 offered them in
our embassy. / chatted with them
for q while, and, as was starting to
leave, q servant told me that the
crowd in the street had greatly in
creased and were watching my auto
mobile. 1 sent out word by the
servant to open the automobile. as II
was q landau, and tell the chauffeur,
when I got in, to drive very slowly.
Crowd Kisses AnbassadoF.
drove slowly through the crowd,
only assaiIed by the peculiar kissing
word that the Germans use when they
are especially angry and which Is
supposed to convey the utmost con-
tempt This word is ''pfui," and has
q peculiar effect when hissed out from
thousands of Teutonic throats.
As we left the outskirts OF the
crowd q man OF respectable appear
anee jumped on the running board OF |
the automobile, spat at me, saying |
"Pfui" and struck Harvey in the face |
with his hat / stopped the automo- |
bile, jumped out, and chased this man |
down the street and caught him. |
Then my German footman came run |
ming UP and explained that was the |
American ambassador and not an |
Englishman. The man who struck |
Harvey thereupon Gpologized and |
gave hts card. He was q Berlin |
lawyer, who came to the embassy |