HOME TO TRELLEBORG
In the morning of the memorable 6th of November I left Metz by the
train for Saarbrücken, the town where the first shots were fired in the
last Franco-German war. I had some time to spare, and settled down at
a table in the restaurant of the _Terminus Hotel_ to read some really
recent newspapers. Life seemed to go on here just as usual, and one
noticed nothing of the war. The regular customers came in for their
_Frühschoppen_ (early mug of beer) as they always do, and here and
there an officer or a civilian was breakfasting.
At Ludwigshafen a conductor came along and shouted into every
compartment of the train that the windows were to be kept shut, and
that nobody must lean out whilst passing over the Rhine bridge. It was
pleasant to see the alacrity with which his order was obeyed--after
all one had plenty of time to contemplate the great and mighty river
between that town and Mannheim. Just as the train was starting, this
same conductor jumped into my compartment. Aha, I thought, he thinks
my shabby field clothes look suspicious in a first-class compartment,
and he sees that I am busy with map, note-book and pencil. However,
I met him half-way in my frankest manner, and asked whether the
window-closing order was a precaution against bomb attacks on the
bridge. He smiled and answered that the orders were that the windows
were to be shut. Then I asked what the consequence would be if one
disobeyed the order, opened the window and looked out. “In that case,”
he said, “there are sentries outside who would note the compartment and
the window, and the end would be that the guilty party would land in a
place where he would find no windows at all.”
At Mannheim nothing happened. But at Heidelberg I had hardly stepped
on to the platform before two officers came up to me. One said in
firm but very polite tones that I must accompany him to the District
Commandant’s office. “Of course,” I said, “I shall be delighted, but
I hope you will be kind enough to let me bring my hand luggage.” “Why
certainly,” was the answer. On the way to the office, which happened
to be close to the platform, the officer remarked: “Your passport must
be examined by the military authorities.” “Why can’t you look at it at
once?” I asked, and handed him my pass, now soiled and frayed at the
edges. “Well, perhaps I might do so,” he answered, and we stopped. He
read the paper with General von Moltke’s name, turned to his companion
and whispered my name in his ear, whereupon both saluted and held out
their hands, which I pressed almost as heartily as I laughed at the
little adventure.
“_Aber Herr Doktor, sie müssen uns doch entschuldigen, wir ..._”
(“Really, doctor, you must excuse us, we ...”)
“_Bitte, bitte, das ist ja reizend._” (“But please don’t mention it,
I am delighted.”) Thereupon my German eagles also broke into hearty
laughter over their prey.
“Your train does not leave for an hour. In place of the examination at
the office, won’t you come and drink a glass of beer with us at the
buffet?”
“Why, of course, I shall be most happy!” And so the time passed all
too quickly, and we got a lot of fun out of the little adventure--an
adventure which I might have repeated at every station, had I liked
to do so. But it would not do, war is too serious a matter for
jest. My new friends told me that the conductor had found me very
suspicious-looking, especially on account of my maps and note-book,
and had telephoned from Mannheim. At Heidelberg he had conducted the
officers to my compartment. I assured them that I could find no words
to express the admiration which I felt for the alertness and vigilance
which pervaded the whole of Germany from frontier to frontier--it
seemed like clockwork where every cog drops into its place with
automatic precision, and where the hours strike their solemn strokes
to the fraction of a second. When it was time to part they saw me into
my carriage, and as the train moved out they gave me a final friendly
salute and bade me God-speed.[41]
[41] This little episode, which seemed as harmless as it was amusing to
us three “conspirators” whilst we discussed it over our mugs of beer,
found its way into the German press, and was received with much mirth.
In the French press it appeared under a different guise. Thus, for
instance, the _Journal des Débats_, in a telegram from Bordeaux, dated
November 22nd, publishes the following:--
“_Un télégramme de Bâle dit qu’en quittant l’Allemagne, Sven Hedin
l’explorateur suédois bien connu, a été arrêté et retenu quelque temps
à Heidelberg comme suspect d’espionnage._”
The “Figaro” has quite a little article under the heading of “_Vieil
Heidelberg_.” Other headings are as follows:--
“_Le germanophile arrêté pour espionnage._--_Ils arrêtent leur meilleur
ami!_--_Arrestation de M. Sven Hedin._--_Arrêté comme espion._--_Les
allemands soupçonnent leurs meilleurs amis_,” and so on _ad infinitum_.
An English newspaper, the _Newcastle Chronicle_, of November 24th,
managed to improve on these versions: “The adventure at Heidelberg of
Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer now in the pay of the German Official
Press Bureau, appears to have been amusing. He delivered a lecture in
public at the ancient cradle of German culture, and knowing him to be
a foreigner, the Heidelberg police regarded his intense enthusiasm for
the greatness of Germany as suspicious. He was accordingly arrested,
and detained for several days until his employers of the Press Bureau
could be communicated with and establish that he was not a spy. Perhaps
this little experience may cool Sven Hedin’s ardour. In any case, why
was he lecturing in Heidelberg? His services in Holland or Italy, the
United States, or any other neutral country requiring enlightenment
would seem natural and appropriate, but surely Heidelberg needs no
lessons in pan-germanism.”
The surprising thing about the English description is not its wealth of
detail given with the same readiness as when it is a question of great
and serious matters, such as, for instance, Hindenburg’s continuous
defeats, the uninterrupted German retreat from Flanders, the funeral of
the German Crown Prince, which takes place on an average of about once
a month, etc. No, the really surprising thing in this article is that
the newspaper would find it natural and suitable if I were to plead
Germany’s cause in _neutral_ countries, such as Holland, Italy or the
United States. _A bon entendeur, salut!_
At Karlsruhe, on the following day, I waited on the noble and
high-minded mother of our Queen, the Dowager Grand Duchess Luise, as
well as on the Grand Duke and his Consort. I was only due to leave
for Berlin by the night train, and was therefore very glad to be
able to accept the Grand Duchess Luise’s most gracious proposal that
I should inspect the gigantic and ideally equipped hospital in the
_Gewerbeschule_ under her Royal Highness’s own august guidance. I met
there two distinguished head nurses, the wife of General von Oetinger
and Frau Sautier, also Fru Linder from Stockholm who was here to study
hospital arrangements in the field and who had met with the greatest
hospitality in Karlsruhe.
It was most touching to see the Grand Duchess, in spite of her
seventy-six years, walk from bed to bed, from ward to ward, encouraging
soldiers and speaking to them in a way that went straight to the heart.
In her black dress and her black lace veil over her head, she looked
like a pious abbess giving comfort and solace to the wounded warriors,
and indeed she made a most welcome break in their long weary hours
of suffering. Behind our Queen’s mother came several nurses carrying
armfuls of flowers and little packets of portraits of the Grand-Ducal
pair. Before leaving, this guardian angel of the wounded graciously
handed a packet and a picture to each soldier as a souvenir of her
visit.
The most delightful part of my visit was the witnessing of the homage
paid by the convalescent soldiers to the venerable and beloved lady, as
they stood assembled in the great hall of the hospital. When the Grand
Duchess came out, they spontaneously broke into the stirring and moving
tones of the great German National Hymn here given in translation:--
(Tune: “Praise the Lord, ye heavens adore Him.”)
Germany, be thou exalted
Over every other land,
If but in the hour of peril,
True thy sons together stand
From the Meuse unto the Niemen,
From Adige to Baltic strand,
Germany, be thou exalted
Over every other land!
German women, German faith, and
German wine and German song
Shall their ancient fame and glory
Still retain through ages long,
And to noble deeds inspire us
All our path through life along--
German women, German faith, and
German wine and German song!
Unity and right and freedom
For our German fatherland--
This let us together strive for,
Brothers all, with heart and hand!--
Unity and right and freedom--
Pledges of a blessed land--
In the glory of such blessing
Flourish, German Fatherland!
“Thank you, thank you, God bless you all,” said the Grand Duchess, and
disappeared as unpretentiously as she had come.
In Berlin I looked up several old friends and also had the honour
and pleasure to be invited to supper with the pretty, charming and
altogether delightful Crown Princess. In the evening we sat round
an open, flaming hearth, and I recounted my recollections from the
front and from the desert, whilst my illustrious hostess and her
ladies-in-waiting were listening and knitting socks for the brave
soldiers in the trenches. The Crown Princess had another guest whom it
was a great pleasure to me to meet again--Baron von Maltzahn, who now,
after his unlucky motor drive, had recovered sufficiently to hop about
on crutches.
The streets of Berlin looked the same as they had done two months
previously. Men and women, motor-cars and ’buses moved about as busily
as they had done before, and the streets were flooded with electric
light all night just as in piping times of peace. At the appointed
hour the Palace Guard came marching along _Unter den Linden_ as it has
always done, with its alluring, rapturous military music calling to
fresh deeds of valour. Had one not known it, one could not possibly
have guessed, but for the shouting of the newsboys, that the country
was involved in the most gigantic war of all time. Neither did I notice
any thinning of the numbers of able-bodied men in the streets, and
yet had I not seen through the carriage window from Metz armies of
recruits, reservists and volunteers all drilling in barrack squares and
fields along the line?
It has been stated in certain newspapers that the Germans treated their
prisoners of war in a cruel and inhuman manner. That this was untrue
like everything else which forms part of the educational campaign, I
readily understood, but all the same I thought it would be interesting
to find out for myself the facts of the case. Accordingly I paid a
visit to the acting General Staff. Not only did they give me the usual
prompt permission to go out to the prisoners’ camp at Döberitz, but I
was given as guide a most capable and learned major.
At the entrance to the camp we were received by a colonel and several
other officers, who took us round and explained everything. Here were
four thousand Russians, four thousand British and a few hundred French,
Belgians and Turcos--I am sorry to say there were no other specimens
from the ethnological colour-box at Döberitz. The prisoners live in
gigantic tents where they have their beds close together on the ground
in four enormous rows. I went into one of the tents and found a group
of Russians with caps on the back of their heads and coats or blankets
over their shoulders, and asked if they were satisfied with the
treatment they received. “Oh yes, nitchevo,” was the answer. But one
of them shouted, “It is too cold to lie on the ground in late autumn.”
“Yes,” I answered, “of course it was warmer in the firing lines in
Poland. How would you like to go back and warm yourselves a bit?” “No,
Heaven preserve us!” came as a chorus on every side.
My old friend Tommy Atkins was strolling about inside the barbed-wire
fence and looked and felt very bored. But he was not ill-treated,
on the contrary, he was very well looked after. I saw him at dinner
with his ally Ivan Ivanovitch. The 8500 prisoners were fed in
three-quarters of an hour, and the whole thing was despatched with the
utmost smoothness. In front of the kitchen building, in which gigantic
caldrons were steaming, railings had been put up, permitting the men to
advance in files of eight to the window opening, through which the mess
cooks with the adroitness, touch and quickness of a virtuoso filled
to the brim the bowls held out to them with wholesome, nourishing,
steaming soup. When their bowls had been filled, the men went back
another way so as to avoid congestion. The system is the same as at the
booking offices at busy railway stations.
The British soldier is, under _normal_ conditions, a sinewy and
well-knit man, who has hardened and trained his body with football,
tennis, cricket and other salutary exercises. But in Germany he merely
vegetates and swells in bulk and by no means over-exerts himself over
the work offered him in confinement, by which he can earn a couple of
_pfennigs_ a day for tobacco. If therefore on his return home Tommy
tries to make out that he has been living “below starvation mark” in
Germany, his comfortably rounded form and his _eloquencia corporis_
will give him the lie!
It is surprising and peculiar to see Tommy Atkins and Ivan Ivanovitch
arm-in-arm--figuratively speaking, of course! For in the concentration
camps they hate one another heartily. Tommy regards Ivan as a lousy
savage and Ivan looks on Tommy as an impudent upstart whom the modest
patron of the _samovar_ ought not to associate with. And yet, for all
practical purposes, they march arm-in-arm and use all the most hellish
infernal machines of modern militarism to destroy the German militarism
and free the earth from the Germanic barbarians. Great Britain and
Russia! It really staggers the imagination when one thinks that these
two countries have neither in Europe nor in Asia, in heaven nor on
earth, _a single positive interest_ in common.
We need only think of India, the most precious jewel in Great Britain’s
crown. Of the possibility of a Russian invasion of India Lord Curzon,
the greatest and most clear-sighted Viceroy India has ever had, has
given utterance to the following: “It would involve the most terrible
and lingering war that the world has ever seen; and it could only be
effected by a loss, most unlikely to occur, and more serious in its
effects upon the human race than that of India itself, namely, the
loss of the fibre of the British people.” Elsewhere, when saying that
India’s safety is Great Britain’s foremost duty, he speaks as follows
of a Russian attack on that country: “It can only be prosecuted in the
teeth of international morality, in defiance of civilised opinion and
with the ultimate certainty of a war with this country that would ring
from pole to pole.”
The _Novoye Vremya_ writes at about the same time (1st December,
1888): “Our attention has been focussed on the necessity of bringing
Khorasan under Russia’s exclusive influence, the more so as through
Khorasan runs a convenient road in the direction of Herat and in case
of military operations against India, Khorasan would therefore serve as
a base of supply for our further operations.” Then we have Skobeleff’s
and Kuropatkin’s very detailed and minute plans for an invasion of
India.[42]
[42] Curzon: “Russia in Central Asia,” 1889, and “Persia and the
Persian Question,” 1892, Vol. II.
Many years have elapsed since Lord Curzon thoroughly and exhaustively,
as usual, dealt with this question. But is there anyone who believes
that the danger is less serious now that the Russians have been checked
in the Far East by the Japanese and in the Far West by Germany and
Austria-Hungary? It is true that there is one other outlet in the
west--a truth which the _Swedes_ should bear in mind. But nevertheless
the danger to India is far greater now than it was twenty-five years
ago.
It is therefore not a little peculiar to see Tommy Atkins helping Ivan
Ivanovitch with blood and iron, on land and sea, to gain that power
and strength which he needs for carrying out an invasion of India. For
England this world war is a national calamity, however it may end. “We
have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.”
We also visited the hospital at Döberitz, where the prisoners receive
all the care that human charity can give to the sick. It is not charity
alone that demands the greatest sacrifices in this respect, for a
concentration camp where thousands of men live huddled together on one
spot _may_ become a source of contagion, if ill-managed. Hence skilled
doctors, sick attendants and nurses are engaged, and the slightest
symptom is immediately followed by isolation to prevent the possibility
of an epidemic.
In one of the paths I came across a Tommy walking up and down. He
looked very pale, but was convalescent.
“How are you getting on?” said I, but received no reply.
“I hope you will soon become a little bit of all right by and by,” I
tried once more in my very best colloquial English. Tommy only smiled
and looked at me.
“Is he deaf or is he mad?” I asked the doctor who accompanied us.
“No, he is Russian,” answered the doctor, laughing. But how this
Russian had got into Tommy’s uniform remains an unsolved riddle.
It is a rather significant fact that whilst the good-natured Russians
need only four per cent of guards, the self-conscious English require
ten per cent; in other words, four German soldiers look after a
hundred Russians, whilst a hundred English need ten guardians. The
reason may possibly be found in the inborn servility traceable to
generations of serfdom, but the principal reason of the difficulty in
handling the English prisoners is probably that they have no national
service and have not accustomed themselves to discipline. The cases of
insubordination in the prisoners’ camps are almost entirely confined to
the British prisoners. The punishment for the first offence consisted
in letting the culprit stand a couple of hours to guard the guns on a
little flat eminence near the camp, where the wind usually blew cold
and strong. After a graver offence the delinquent was usually tied to
a tree for an hour or two, but this latter punishment had only been
resorted to in isolated cases.
My impression of the treatment of prisoners at Döberitz confirmed all
that I had witnessed in this connection at the seat of war. But the
world _will_ be deceived and is deceived. Hence the educators of the
British nation spread broadcast the meanest calumnies concerning the
“Huns’ barbarity” to their unhappy prisoners.
The magnificent drawing-room inside the hall of the _Hotel Kaiserhof_
usually formed the rendezvous of a little Swedish colony in the
evening. Here I met Cavalry Captain Count Gilbert Hamilton, who had
become a German subject and officer in order to strike a blow in the
Germanic fight for existence. He was just on his way to his regiment
and was looking forward to a very different reveille from that he
was accustomed to at our own sleepy horse-guards barracks at home in
Stockholm. Here also I met once more my old friend Colonel Gustaf
Bouveng, who had spent two and a half months at the front and who,
among innumerable other impressions, was also taking home with him the
conviction that in a military sense Germany simply _cannot_ be defeated
by her present opponents. Instead of tiring and becoming decimated, the
German army grows in strength and numbers from month to month.
On the 12th of November I took my departure from the _Stettiner
Bahnhof_ and set out on my journey home to Sweden. As I reached
Sassnitz, dusk was descending over the Baltic. The passports and
effects of the passengers were subjected to a most careful scrutiny.
The same calm, the same sure self-possession, the same discipline and
order as I had noticed everywhere in Germany and in the firing lines,
made themselves felt here, too, on the outermost planks of the harbour
pier. At Sassnitz fourteen torpedo-boats lay ready for immediate
action, and in the roads a gigantic hospital ship was riding at anchor,
ready to receive wounded from the sea.
The ferry cast off her moorings. Little by little in the gathering
gloom we lose sight of land, that land whose seconds are as long as
years, whose people is now writing its _epos_ in runes of blood on
the pages of the world’s history--a united people, a virile people, a
people which stood ready in its hour of trial, armed for the defence
of its honour, its liberty and its future when the ravenous monster of
strife rose up upon its frontiers, a people which has the _will_ to win
and which therefore in the time to come will march at the head of the
ruling race upon our earth.
But the belt of sea between the ferry and the German coast grows wider.
The song “_Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein_” has long since died away.
The twilight, the transition between day and night, is over. And in the
north bides the deep impenetrable darkness.
INDEX
_Aboukir_, loss of H.M.S., 113
Abstinence from wine, 147
Adlercreutz, Major, 12
Ahrenberg, Duchess of, 208
Aire, the, 93
Aisne, the, 93
retreat of the Germans to, 152
Alaska, 22
Albert, King of the Belgians, 307
Aleppo, 214
Alers, Colonel von, 367
Algermissen, Dr., at Ostend, 278, 279
Algiers, 340
Allies, the, their use of foreign troops, 17, 163, 187, 250, 352-355
All Souls’ Day at Bapaume, 332-347
Almanach de Gotha, the, 27
Alost, 263
Alsace, French claim on, 29, 32
Alt, 36
Altefähr, 4
Altkirch, 186
America, its relations with Japan, 350
American Ambassador in Paris, 307
America, village, 358
Ancerviller, 373
Angers, 33
Anklam, 5
Antwerp, author visits, 216-228, 235-262, 297
forts of, 297, 298
hospital in, 257
neutral consulates in, 255
port of, 224-228, 237
siege of, 204, 213-219, 231 note, 253-255, 270, 295
supposed British ambitions for, 270
Zoological Gardens, 252
Apolda, the, 25
Archer, William, reviews the author’s work, v-vii
Ardenne Canal, the, 145, 146
Argentine Consul in Antwerp, 256, 259
Argonne, the, fighting in, 85, 92, 93, 188, 318, 327
_Ariadne_, sinking of the, 268-270
Arlon, 127, 128
Armentières, author visits, 309, 311
Arnim, Prince, in Luxemburg, 51
Arnoldi, Dr., Acting Chief of the Automobile Corps, 14, 16, 17
Arras, fighting at, 310, 318
Arrhenius, Professor Svante, 205
Artois, 348, 351
Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., at the Guildhall, 354
Attigny, hospital at, 156
Augustovo, 318
Australian troops, the, 250, 354
Austria-Hungary checks Russia, 384
its army, 187
Austrian artillery in Belgium, 236, 295, 313
Automobile Corps, Imperial Volunteer, constitution of, 14-16, 48, 55
Autry, 149, 166
Auxerre, 89
_Aventi_, s.s., 285
Aye, 204
Bach’s _Passion_, 335
Baedeker on Belgium, 248, 265, 281
Bagdad Railway, the, 56
Bailer, General, in Brussels, 243, 244
in Antwerp, 245, 252, 258, 297
Balakhani, the, 294
Baltic Sea, the, 4
Banér, Field-Marshal Johan, 27
Bantheville, 75
Bapaume, author visits, 296-309, 315-319, 332-342, 361-367
_Bapaumer Zeitung am Mittag_, 317-319
Barbas, 374-377
Bar-le-Duc, 89
Bavaria, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of, 344
Bavarian Army, the, warlike spirit of, 47
Landsturm, the, 333, 343
Beaumont, 146
Beelitz, 19
Beethoven, 250
Behr, Captain von, author accompanies, 150, 158, 169, 171, 189, 196
Count-Marshal von, attends the Crown Prince, 61, 62, 103, 104
Belfort, 186
Belgian Army, the, 354
brings loss upon itself, 207, 208, 220, 260
defends Antwerp, 217, 222, 227, 231 note, 251, 254, 271
German tributes to, 234, 260
its wireless stations, 128
uniforms of, 237
Belgian Cabinet leaves Ostend, 285
coast bombarded by the British Navy, 265-283
dogs, 261, 263
hospitals at Malines, 241
hospitals at Ostend, 289
Luxemburg, 125-129
police in Antwerp, 235, 251
prisoners of war, 33, 234, 284
railwaymen, 204
refugees, 225
refugees from Antwerp, 237, 246, 251, 254, 257, 260, 285
refugees in Ostend, 284
Belgium, author’s compassion for, 209, 258, 261
England’s policy with regard to, 247, 270, 284, 355
Belle Alliance, La, 211
Bellevue, Sedan, 136, 137
Bellman, poet, 308
Benares, 62, 353
Benckendorff, Count, his Tibetan policy, 248
Benedetti, Ambassador of the French, 34
Benz and Co., 307
Berchem, 224, 254
Bergen-op-Zoom, 254, 259
Bergues, 368
Berlin, author’s visits to, 6-19, 45, 53, 381
Geological Society, 295
Russian advance on, 284, 303
triumphal entry into, 192
University, 233
Bernhard, Captain, 88
Bernhard, Major-General, questions prisoners, 89
Bernhardi, General, xvi
Bertrix, 128-130, 201
Beseler, General von, 295
Bess, Captain, at Ostend, 268, 271, 275, 277, 281, 286, 288, 293
on the _Ariadne_, 268-270
Betz, Lieut.-Col., at Dun, 104, 111
Bible, author’s quotations from the, 193, 261
_Bierabend_, author enjoys a, 231
Bikanir, 62
Bildt, General, 306
Billeting, German methods of, 37
Birkenfeld, 172
Bismarck, Count, at Donchery, 137-139
tower, Apolda, 25
Bitterfeld, 22
Black Sea, Turkish fleet in the, 344
Blamont, author visits, 370, 373
Blankenberghe, author visits, 288
Bleichröder, Baron, in Sedan, 186
Blériot aeroplanes in use, 179
Blois, 110
Blücher, General, English debt to, 211, 212
Boer War, the, 356
Böhlau, Lieut.-Col., 196
Boiry, 310, 319, 330
Bois de Cheppy, 94
Bombay, author in, 214
Bordeaux, 64, 171, 172, 380
Börjeson, Rev., in Antwerp, 259
Bouchain, 300
Bouillon, 131
Boureuilles, 93, 94
Bournemouth, 284
Boussu, 300
Bouveng, Colonel Gustaf, 12, 386
Boy Scouts, motto of, 258
Braine le Comte, 299
Brandenburg, 5
Breitenfeld, 22
Breslau, 70, 200
Brialmont, General, fortifications of, 245
Briey, 370
Brighton, 284
British Army aviators over Ostend, 287
bombards Ostend, 263
foreign troops in, 17, 163, 187, 250, 352-355
in Antwerp, 217, 225, 227, 231 note, 251, 271
its artillery, 314, 359
personal courage of, 36, 360
British Navy bombards the Belgian coast, 265-284, 286-288
sinks the _Ariadne_, 268-270
Bruges, 285
author in, 264
Germans in, 243, 263
Brussels, author in, 210-216, 230-233, 238, 242-244, 263, 295
refugees from, 284, 288
under the Germans, 243
Bürger, Lieutenant, 176
Busch, Herr von, Minister in Luxemburg, 123
Calais, German advance on, 271
Calcutta, 352
Cambrai, author visits, 300, 310, 368
Cameroons, the, 79
Canadian troops, 250, 354
Cappellen, 260
Carignan, 201, 368
Cernay, 146, 165, 199
Challerange, 165
Chamier-Glisczinski, Captain von, at Vouziers, 173, 181
Champion, Convent of, 209
Charlemagne, Emperor, 51
Charles V., Emperor, 10, 249
Charles XII. of Sweden, vi, 96, 146, 168
Charleville, 125
Château-Salins, 372
Chauvency, 60, 117
Cheppy, 93, 94
Churchill, Winston, in Antwerp, 254, 270
Ciney, 204
Clairvaux, Bernard de, 334
Classen, Lieutenant, 219
Cleving, Herr, at Bapaume, 307, 315, 317, 335, 341, 361
Coal-mines, Belgian, 299
Coblenz, 34
Colmar, 278
Cologne, 117, 150
Colombo, 214
Condé, 149, 165
Constantinople, 91
Turks capture, 120
Cossart, Maître Emile, 302-305, 344, 367
Cousteumont, 127
Cramb, Professor, xvi
_Cressy_, loss of H.M.S., 113
Croisilles, 310
Crombez, M., 121
Cronstedt, Count, 173
Crown Prince, the German, 380 note
as an author, 78
at Dun, 112
author’s visits to, 46, 55, 61-64, 76, 80, 103, 104, 113, 114
on war, 63
visits the author, 78
Crown Princess, German, entertains the author, 382
Cunel, 74
Curzon, Earl, as Viceroy, 242, 248
his hope, 352
Dagobert, King, 29
Dahlgren, janitor, 248
_Daily Telegraph_, v
Dannevoux, 69
_Danzig_, cruiser, 269
Darmstadt, 132
Deffner, chauffeur, 19
Dellmensingen, General Krafft von, at Douai, 346
Demain, 300
Dendre, the, 263
Desserrey, Madame, and family, 76, 77, 115
Détaille, artist, 63, 159
_Deutschland in Waffen_, 78
Diaries, soldiers’, 90, 376
Dinant, 60, 207
destruction of, 244
Dixmude, 297
Döberitz, 309
author visits, 382-386
Donchery, 137
Donck, 260
Dorpfeld, 297
Douai, author visits, 310, 344-348
Douchy, 300, 333
Dreger, Captain, in Brussels, 214, 231
in Antwerp, 235
Dresden, 186
Dryhoek, 260
Duffel, 218, 298
Dug-outs, German, 75, 175, 180, 199, 322
Dun, author’s day at, 104-116
Germans in, 61, 66, 75, 81
Dunkerque, 265, 271, 275, 284
Düsseldorf, 335
Eastbourne, 284
Eastern front, length of the, 186
East Prussia, German victories in, 200
Eckeren, 260
Eclisfontaine, the author visits, 80-103
Eclo, 264
Eichstedt, Count von, at Vouziers, 158, 161, 169, 196
Eiffel, 172
Eisenach, 27
Eiserne Hand, the, 30
Eitel Friedrich, Prince, at the front, 326
Elbe, the, 20
Elert, Major, 245, 258
Elizabeth Sisters, the, 189
Eller, 35
Ems, the author at, 31-34
Engineers, their work in the Argonne, 188
England, author’s sorrow for, vi, 192
German hatred of, vi, 24, 29, 159, 360
her army and navy. _See_ British
her care for the Belgian refugees, 225, 247, 284
her newspaper press, xv, 17, 31, 55, 354, 380 note, 386
her relations with Russia, 248, 383-385
her rule in India, 352, 384
her supposed hatred of Germany, vi, 187, 270, 344
her supposed hysteria, 271
policy of, vi, 210, 212, 213, 230, 270, 284, 355
English prisoners of war, 33, 47
at Antwerp, 257
at Döberitz, 382-386
at Kruiseik, 359-361
at Namur, 210
at Roubaix, 348-351, 358
Eppeghem, 234
Erfurt, 27
Esschem, 254
Essen, Elizabeth sisters of, 189
Faidherbe, statue of, 317, 340, 341
Falkenhausen army, the, 371, 372
Falkenhayn, Lieut.-Gen. von, 168
at Douai, 346
in Brussels, 232
in Luxemburg, 48
Fifth Army, the German, 57, 60, 61, 64, 74, 75, 113, 188
_Figaro, Le_, 380 note
Finnish armies, 29
Fischer, Colonel, at the front, 175, 178
Flanders, Anglo-Belgian Army in, 271
Counts of, 264
Flushing, 252
Fock. _See_ Wilamovitz
Folkestone, 284
Forrières, 203
Fournaise, Madame, 138
Fourth Army, German, author follows, 145-181
its lines of communication, 140-144
Franco-Prussian War, 1870, Germany’s development after, 10, 34
incidents of, 136-139, 215, 302, 340, 378
_Franctireurs_, at Louvain, 240
German treatment of, 56-59, 75, 135, 169, 202, 203, 208
Frankfurt-on-Main, 29, 135
French Army, artillery, 70-74, 86, 167, 177, 189
aviation service, 36, 70, 148, 162, 165-167, 173, 179, 181, 312,
316, 328, 330, 343, 359, 363-366
constitution of, 17
foreign troops in, 17, 163, 187, 250, 343
German tributes to, 24, 65, 111, 178, 198, 303, 327
its mobilisation, 120
its use of wooded country, 58, 188
its vigilance and spy system, 321, 325, 327-330
Medical Service, 157, 158
respects the Red Cross, 180
uniform of, 41
French people, the author’s affection for, and sympathy with, 139,
184, 192
their hatred of Germany, 187
the Kaiser’s sympathy and respect for, 53, 54
under the German occupation, 183-186
French prisoners of war, author visits, 70, 98, 109, 111, 150, 171,
187
author visits the wounded, 31-33, 35, 38-41, 89-91, 101, 133
construct a railway, 60
in Belgium, 295, 302, 366
in Germany, 47
their dejection, 89, 110, 112, 117, 288
their diaries, 90
Fretzdorff, Colonel, at Dun, 111
Friederich, Major Hans, 205, 210 Major-General, in Ghent, 264
Fröhlich, Dr., author travels with, 200-202
Fuchs, Lieutenant, 196, 198
Fulda, 28
Funerals, German military, 31
Furnes, 275
Gambetta, General, 340
Geibel, Emanuel, quoted, 79
Gelnhausen, 28
Gembloux, 211
Geneva conventions, 158
Gerhard, Paul, 335
German Army, aerial service, 44, 117, 166, 171, 173, 176, 344, 357,
364-366; _see also_ Taube
admiration of the French, 303
ammunition of, 67, 161, 288
artillery, 71-73, 85-87, 109, 167, 174, 205, 271, 280, 311, 373-375
base hospitals, 115
cavalry corps, 82, 150
chaplains, 192-194, 199, 333, 335, 343, 375
commissariat arrangements, 133, 147, 148, 183, 276
consideration for civilians, 160, 170, 184-186, 208, 246, 255, 329,
330; _see also Franctireurs_
despatch riders, 149
discipline, xv, 170, 195, 223, 367
equipment of, 66
Field Gendarmes, 145
field hospitals and Medical Service, 37-42, 74, 98, 133, 148, 150,
152-158, 162-165, 200, 210, 241, 257, 290-293, 366
Field postal service, 145, 195-198
Field Telegraph Battalion, 17, 59
Field Telephone Service, 72, 84, 174-176, 178
Headquarters at Luxemburg, 14, 45, 48-50, 115
lines of communication, 140-144, 155, 168, 182
loyalty of, 123
methods of observation, 85, 93, 178, 330, 377
mobilisation of, 44, 172
pay-day in, 195
reinforcements, 66, 69, 74, 148, 163, 180
Service Corps, 66
supposed superiority of, 168, 187, 217
systematic organisation of, 17, 21, 111, 136, 140, 157
transport columns, 67, 71, 75, 80, 108, 118, 162
German treatment of prisoners, 31, 348, 382-386
trenches, 75, 177
wounded of, 88, 133, 151-158, 290
German atrocities denied, 11, 17, 55, 56
culture, war on, vii, 191, 231 note, 250, 270, 350
hatred of England, vi, 24, 29
imperturbability, 113, 174, 318
letters from the front, 24, 197
militarism, 355, 360, 383
German Navy, its losses, 268-270
power of the, 50, 53, 78, 242, 386
German Press, honesty of the, 318
prisoners in France, 33 note, 158, 180
railway system, 22, 46, 118, 126, 129, 130, 172, 182, 202
German Red Cross, the, 28, 30, 35, 36
Countess von Moltke works for, 45
its work in Luxemburg, 47, 48, 124
its work on the battlefields, 40, 83, 93, 102, 153, 180
nurses, 203
German schools continue work, 41
social democrats, 30, 376
unity of feeling, 9, 11, 34, 36, 96, 123, 143, 169, 192, 288, 335,
376, 386
victory, confidence of, vi, 34, 36, 79, 95, 96, 114, 192, 239, 242,
270, 289, 309, 373, 386
German South-West Africa, 375
Germany, captures the world’s trade, 257
its preparations for war, 50, 95
Ghent, 285;
author in, 294, 295
fall of, 243, 263
Germans in, 222, 224, 227, 230, 235, 238, 263
Ghistelles, 264, 295
Ghurkas, the, 163, 250, 352
Givet, 60
Gleiwitz, 107
Godfrey the Crusader, 132
Goër, Madame, 316
Goethe, genius of, 26, 250
Goltz, Baron von der, in Brussels, 214-216, 232, 296, 298, 306
Gontard, Lieut.-Gen. von, in Luxemburg, 50, 53, 123
Göppert, Councillor, 348
Gossler, General von, at Dannevoux, 69
_Göteborgs Handels_, 231 note
Gotha, 27
Göttingen, 316
Goumont, Château de, 212
Gräfenhainischen, 22
Grandpré, 149, 166
Graves, soldiers’, 107, 149, 170, 181, 234, 241, 257, 323, 337, 358,
369
Greifswald, 4
Greiner, Hans, 170
Grevenmacher, 44
Gross, Lieut.-Colonel, commands the Field Telegraph Battalion, 17
Grünewald, 335
Grupont, 202
Guadeloupe, 340
Guildhall War Meeting, 354
Gustaf, King of Sweden, 4
Gustavus Adolphus, in Germany, 21, 22, 24, 27, 29, 54, 191
Gwalior, 62
Gwinner, Hans von, acts as chauffeur, 56-61
Gyldén, Professor, 316
Haaf, Captain, 203
Haak, Lieutenant, in Ostend, 268, 277, 283, 286, 287
Haeseler, Count von, at the front, 85, 92, 97, 306
Hague Conventions, the, 158
Hahnke, Lieutenant-Colonel, 45
Hal, 299
Halle, author at, 22-24
Halske and Siemens, Messrs., 242, 299, 376
Hamburg, 292, 351
Hamelincourt, 319, 342
Hamilton, Count Gilbert, 386
Hamipré, 127
Hanau, 28
Hatrival, 202
Havre, Le, 284
Hayek, Professor Hans von, 348
Heidelberg, author in, 378
Heligoland, 268
Helmholtz, 250
Henry of Prussia, Prince, 48
Herat, 384
Heymann, 62
Heyn, Major, in Sedan, 135
Heyst op den Berg, 218
Hildebrand, Professor, 316
Hildesheim, 189
Hindenburg, Field-Marshal von, victories of, 6, 303, 344, 355, 380
note
Lieut. von, 165
Hirschberg, General von, at Namur, 205, 209
Hirson, 368
Hogne, 204
_Hogue_, loss of H.M.S., 113
Hohenlohe, Prince, 144
Hohenzollern, Prince Friedrich of, at the front, 307, 309
race, the, shed their blood for Germany, 124
Hoiningen, Baron von, 243
Holland, Belgian refugees in, 225, 246, 254, 259-261
Hollen, Rittmeister von, 342
Hollweg, Herr von Bethmann, in Luxemburg, 48, 124
visits Antwerp, 245
Hongkong, 214
Houyet, 203
Huisne, the, 122
Hünfeld in Hesse, 28
Hussars, German, 233
Hütten, Lieut. Doctor, visits Antwerp, 219, 221, 233, 235, 252
visits Louvain, 239
Idar, 62
Identification discs, 105, 165
Igel, 44
Ilberg, Dr., in Luxemburg, 51
Ilm, the, 25
Ilse, General, 168
India, Crown Prince in, 62
English rule in, 352-354
Lord Curzon, Viceroy of, 242, 384
Indian prisoners of war, 351
troops, the, 39, 351-354
Iron Crosses, the, 42, 326, 358
awarded to Lt.-Col. Schaubode, 258
bestowed by the Crown Prince, 61, 62, 80
chaplains earn, 193
shape used as tombstone, 107
Isolani, in Germany, 24
Ivangorod, 318
Jade Bight, 268
Jagow, Herr von, Foreign Minister, at Headquarters, 14, 48
Jakobson, Captain, 294
Japan, its relations with Russia, 248, 350, 384
Japanese occupy Tsingtau, 160
Jemelle, 201, 203
Jesuits at Vouziers, 187
Joachim, Prince, is wounded, 123
Joan of Arc, statue of, 311, 333, 348
statuette of, 106
Joffre, General, German admiration of, 303
Johannes, Lieutenant, 181
_Journal des Débats_, 380 note
Jung, General, 295
Jüterbog, 302
Kabylia, 340
Kamerun, 363
Kapellen, 136
Karlsruhe, 243, 380
Kashmir, 28, 62, 351
Kaufmann, Captain, 377
Kemnitz, Colonel von, 140
Kes, Dr. Walter, 219, 230
Khorasan, 384
Kilima Njaro, Mount, 114
Kioto, 202
Kipling, Rudyard, author quotes, 289, 308, 353, 356
Kirchhoff, Professor, 23
Kirn, 172
Kitchener, Earl, Crown Prince on, 62
Klefberg, Dr., 234 note
Kleinbettingen, 126
Kobe, 257
Koch, Frau Martha, her Red Cross work, 214, 215, 239
Kodak, author’s Eastman, 123
Kollmann, Lieutenant, 182
Kondratenko, General, 205
Königsberg, troops from, 200
Korte, private, 290
Kösen, 25
Kreidel, Privy Councillor, at Brussels, 243
Kreuznach, 172
Kriebel, Captain, 372
Kroeber, Dr. Hans, 26
Kruiseik, author visits, 358-361
Krum, Rittmeister von, acts as the author’s chauffeur, 15-55
Krupp’s factory, engineers from, 294
workmen at Namur, 206
42-cm. mortars, 214
Kübler, Doctor, in Ostend, 268, 275, 277, 281, 289, 294
Kummer, Herr, 315
Kuropatkin, General, 384
Kutch Behar, 62
La Chiers, 60, 117, 119
La Dormoise, 166
La Ferté, letter from, 35
Lahn, the, 31, 34
La Hulpe, 211
La Lys Canal, 357
Lamprecht, Captain, 258
Landsturm, German, at Vouziers, 169
drill the volunteers, 243
characteristics, 5
guards the railways, 22, 126, 129, 203
in Bapaume, 317, 333, 343
march-past of, 149, 222
Landwehr, German, 162, 176, 222, 264
Langen Schwalbach, 30
Lavaux, 127
Lawrence, Sir Walter, 242
Le Cateau, author visits, 368
Le Chesne, 146, 182
Leclerc, Alfred, 165
Leffinghe, 271
Leipzig, 115
battle of, 21
Leman, General, at Liège, 206
Le Mans, 121
Lemberg, battle of, 7
Lengagne, Mesdemoiselles, 302, 344, 367
Le Nouvion, 368
Leo XIII., Pope, 334
Lepsius, Doctor, 205, 210
Lewenhaupt, Count, 173
Libramont, 128, 200-202
_Liebesgaben_ for German troops, 74, 186
Liebrecht, 64
Liège, Krupp’s men at, 206
siege of, 61, 206
Lierre, 218, 298
Lille, author visits, 309-311, 315
author visits, 348, 351
Linder, Fru, 380
Linselles, 357
Liny, 67
Lippe, Doctor, 282, 289
Livland wars, the, 29
Lomme, 311
London, refugees in, 285
Guildhall meeting, 354
London, Jack, his dogs, 22
Longlaville, 57
Longlier, 127
Longuyon, author visits, 59, 119, 129, 369
Longwy, bombardment of, 48, 57, 119-122
Looting, instances of, 170, 195, 223, 367
Lopnor, sea of, 244
Lorraine, the author in, 57
Louis XIV., King, 121
Louis XVI. at Varennes, 93
Lou-lan, 121, 244
Louvain, author visits, 239, 240
destruction of, 55, 240, 244
Löwenstein, Prince, at Douai, 346
Lübke, Captain, escorts the author, 347, 348, 357
Ludwigshafen, 378
Luise, Dowager Grand Duchess, in Karlsruhe, 380
Lumm, Councillor von, 297
Lunéville, 56
Luther, 250
at Wittenberg, 20, 21
Lützen, 24, 27
Luxemburg, author at, 36, 44-56
German Headquarters in, 48-50, 122-124
prisoners in, 40
treatment of wounded in, 47, 48
Grand Duchess of, 45
Lwow. _See_ Lemberg
Machenhauer, Lieut.-Col., 88
MacMahon, Marshal, at Sedan, 146
Madras, 351
_Magdeburgische Zeitung_, author on the Kaiser in, 49
Main, the, 28
Malancourt, 73
Malines, 218, 234, 263;
author visits, 220, 221, 230, 234, 240, 245, 297, 298
Maltzahn, Baron von, 61
injured in a motor accident, 114, 115, 382
Mamer, 126
Manchuria, war in, 11
Mannheim, 378
Brewery, 136
Manuel of Portugal, ex-King, 307
Marche-les-Dames, 208
Margaret of Austria, statue of, 221
Marguth, Pastor, 191, 199
Mariakerke, author at, 286, 287
Marines, German, at Antwerp, 233-235, 241, 251, 257
at Ostend, 276
Marksuhl, 28
Marloie, 203
Marne, the, 152
Battle of the, vi
Marschall, Lieut.-Gen. von, at Douai, 346
in Luxemburg, 51
Marseilles, 70
Mars-la-Tour, 146
Martha, Sister (Frau Koch), 239, 257
Marville, 59, 119, 368
Massebus, Lieutenant, in Brussels, 214
Matthiasz, Major, accompanies the author under fire, 64, 68, 70-73,
80, 84, 97
Maubeuge, 286
Max, Prince of Württemberg, 168
Mayence Ammunition Park Depot, 125
Elector of, 29
Mecklenburg, Duke Adolf Friedrich of, as a chauffeur, 367-370
at Brussels and Bapaume, 296, 301, 306-320, 332, 344, 362, 367,
371, 372
at Douai, 346
at Roubaix, 350
Meiningen, Duke Georg of, 297
Meinze, Herr, 35
Melle, 263
Memel, 125
Menin, 358
Merseburg, 23, 24
Merwart, 202
Merxem, 259
Messempré-Messincourt, 132
Metz, 44, 56
author visits, 367, 376, 378
fortifications of, 217
Meuse, the, 60, 67, 105, 207
Mézières, 368
Middelkerke, 186, 285
artillery at, 265, 271, 275, 283
author at, 271-273, 275
Militarism, German, 356, 357
Mine-field off the Belgian coast, 293
Miraumont, sports at, 362
Mohammed Isa, 351
Moltke, Colonel-General von, in Luxemburg, 45, 55, 122
Chief of the General Staff, smooths the author’s road, 14, 45, 56,
76, 116, 144, 248, 379
Countess von, in Luxemburg, 45, 47, 55
General von, at Donchery, 1870, 137
Mönch, Commander, 289
Monchy-au-Bois, trenches at, 320-331
Mons, author at, 299
Montblainville, 94
Montenegrin troops, the, 354, 355
Montmédy, 60, 105, 118, 129
Mont St. Jean, 211, 212
Moroccan troops, 39
Moscow, 190
Moselle, the, 34-36, 44
Mudra, General von, at the front, 85, 92, 97
Mulde, 22
Müller, Admiral von, in Luxemburg, 51, 53, 122
Colonel, in Antwerp, 245, 258
Lieutenant, 196, 198
Major von, 62, 187
Münch, Franz Xaver, chaplain, 335-340, 366
Munich, 345
Mutius, Colonel von, in Luxemburg, 51
Namur, 60
author visits, 199, 201-210
Nancy, 104
Naninnes, 204
Napoleon I., at Leipzig, 21
at Waterloo, 211, 212
picture of, 138
bust of, 159
Napoleon III., Emperor, capitulation of, 136-139
Narbonne, 171, 172
Narva, 191
Nassau, 30
Naumburg, 24
Nethe, Major, 299
the, 218, 223, 242
Neufchâteau, 127
Neuville, artist, 63
_Newcastle Chronicle_, the, 380 note
New Guinea, 32
New Zealand, troops from, 250
Ney, Marshal, 211
Nicolai, Major, in Luxemburg, 122
Nieuport, 239, 265, 271, 275
Allies in, 272, 273
bombardment of, 284
Nietzsche, xvi
Nobel prize winners, 355
Noërs, 59, 368
Norway, William II. in, 50
_Novoye Vremya_, 384
Oetinger, General von, 380
Ohain, 212
Okuniev, 168
Oldershausen, Colonel von, 358
Omdurman, 62
Ooms, Karel, widow of, 227
Oskar, Prince, illness of, 123, 124
Ostend, author visits, 263-294
bombardment of, 268-283, 317, 346
Ostend, Churchill in, 255
Germans in, 243, 263, 265, 285, 289
Osterith, Mrs., 258
Overyssche, 211
Pappenheim in Germany, 24
Paris, fortifications of, 217
Parsohen, Captain, 170
Pasteur, statue of, 311, 348
Pawel, Lieut.-Gen. von, 362
Peene, the, 5
Peihmann, Baron von, 372
Pekin, 375
Pelkmann, General von, 370
Penang, 214
Peronne, 302
_Persia and the Persian Question_, Curzon’s, 384 note
Perthes, 179
Justus, 27
Peter the Great, Tsar, 146
Petri, Harald, Swedish Consul in Antwerp, 253-255, 259, 260, 263, 265
Petrograd, Poincaré in, 50
Pfeil, Count von, at the front, 85, 90
Photography, author’s, 123, 165, 210, 235, 317
Pius IX., Pope, 334
Pius X., Pope, 223
Planchenois, 212
Planitz, Major von der, 62
Plato, Major von, at Sedan, 132-135, 199, 200
Pless, Prince, in Luxemburg, 51
Plessen, Col.-Gen. von, at Douai, 346
in Luxemburg, 51, 123
Plettenberg, General von, 306, 316
Poincaré, President, at Petrograd, 50
Poland, Germans in, 344, 355
Polish roads, 16, 18
Pomerania, 5
Pompeii, destruction of, 121
Port Arthur, siege of, 205
Portuguese troops, the, 354-356
Posen, author in, 295
Potsdam, 35
author at, 19
Pousette, Herr, 239
Prenzlau, 5
Press, honesty of the German, 318, 355
methods of the English, 354-356
Prisoners of war, dismal fate of, 89
German, treatment of, 31-33, 40, 89-91; _see also under_
British, French, etc.
Prussian-Hessian State Railways, 125
Przemysl, 318
Putten, 254, 260
Quaterecht, 263
Quesnoy, 313, 371
Quiévrain, 300
Rambaldi, Lieut. Count, 176
Rath, Colonel von, at Dannevoux, 70
Rathgen, General, at Namur, 209
Rawalpindi, 28
Rechberg, Adjutant, 91
Rehnsköld, Field-Marshal Count, 24
Reichard, Dr., 320
Reichenau, von, German Minister in Stockholm, 13
Reischach, Baron von, in Luxemburg, 123
Rennenkampf, General, 303
Requisitions, German, 133, 147, 183, 184
Rheims, 146
bombardment of, 129, 200, 239
Germans in, 307, 315
Rhine, the, 34
Richthofen, Professor, 233
Rixingen, 372
Rodingen, 57
Romagne, Germans in, 74, 81, 83, 98-103, 104, 109
Romans at Igel, the, 44
Röntgen, 250
Rosebery, Lord, quoted, xvi
Rosendaal, 254
Rossignol, battle at, 32, 38, 187
Roubaix, English prisoners in 348-351
Roumania, King of, 307
Rouvroy, 147
Rubens, P. P., his house, 258
pictures of, 249
statue of, 250
Rügen, 4
Rupprecht, Crown Prince, of Bavaria, at the front, 344-347, 357
Russia, effect of victory for, 304, 354
its relations with England, 159, 248, 384
Russian Army, its advance on Berlin, 284, 303
possible depression of, 309
prisoners of war, 382
roads, 16
Russo-Japanese War, the, 11, 248
Saale, the, 24, 25
Saarbrücken, 44, 378
Salvius, Adler, 29
Sambre, the, 207
_Sans Souci_, 352
Sarthe, the, 122
Sassnitz, 4, 386
Sauer, the, 44
Sautier, Frau, 380
Savolaks, 29
Saxony, King of, 298, 373
Schaubode, Lieut.-Col., in Antwerp, 258
Scheerenberg, Lieut.-Col., in Brussels, 231
Scheldt, the, 224, 227, 236, 255
Schiller, 339
Schleswig-Holstein, Duke Ernst Günther of, 297
Schlüchtern, 28
Schlüter, Captain, 362
Schmidt, soldier, 64
Schmidt von Knobelsdorff, Lieut.-Gen., 62-64
Schoelvinck, Herr, 307
Scholander, Sven, 308
Schönfelder, Dr., at Ostend, 268, 282, 284, 288-290
Schröder, Admiral von, at Antwerp, 245
at Middelkerke, 275
at Ostend, 278
Schulenburg, Count von der, 342
Schumann, 159
Séchault, 146, 161
Seckendorff, Baron von, controls the Fourth Army, 140-145, 196
Secundinius Aventinus, 44
Sedan, author visits, 122, 125-144, 182-186, 196, 200, 204, 368
memories of 1870 in, 60, 134-136, 146
Semois, the, 130
Senegal, 340
Senegalese troops, the, 39, 250
Senegambia, 355
Septsarges, 64-71
Serajevo, assassination of the Archduke at, 50
Serbian troops, the, 354, 355
Sevron, 168
Shanghai, 214
Shaw, G. B., quoted, 354
Sick, Professor, 115
Simla, 353
Singapore, 214
Siemens, Herr K. F. von, 242, 299-301, 376
Skobeleff, General, 384
Slype, 271
Social democrats, German, 376
Soden, General von, 362
Soignies, 299
Somme Py, 147, 173, 181
Souain, burning of, 174, 177, 179, 180
Spy, profession of the, 23, 167, 327-330
Stålhandske, 29
_Standard, The_, 367 note
St. André, 103, 313
Stecho, Doctor, in Brussels, 231
Steffen, Professor Gustaf F., on Antwerp, 231 note
quoted, 352, 354, 367 note
Steglitz, 219
Stenay, 60, 97, 102, 117, 119
Sterpenich, 126
St. Étienne, 119
Stettin, 219
St. Francis, Day of, 189-194
St. Hubertus, Day of, 362
St. Kilian, statue of, 223
Stockholm, 3, 33, 44, 123, 248, 380, 386
German Minister in, 13
Poincaré in, 50
St. Privat, 370
Stralsund, 4
_Stralsund_, cruiser, 269
Strassburg, von Wedel, governor of, 9
Strauss, Richard, 159
St. Vincent, Sisters of, 189
Suhlmann, Captain, 97, 102
Sweden, danger from Russia to, 304, 384
its military attachés in Germany, 12
Landsturm of, 3
Swedish Army in Germany, vi, 21, 22, 24, 27, 29, 54, 146
its lines of communication, 141, 162
Consul in Antwerp, 253-255, 259
granite in Belgium, 263
letter of credit, author’s, 122, 239
Tacitus on the Germans, 20
Tägert, Captain, at Ostend, 266, 271, 278, 294
Tahure, 181
Taine, statue of, 194
Takla-makan, 202
Tannay, 146
Tannenberg, 7
Tappen, Colonel, at Douai, 346
_Tasmania_, s.s., 238
_Taubes_, German, author inspects, 44, 171, 275
damaged by French, 330
over Ostend, 280
Taube, Count, Swedish Minister in Berlin, 9
Tauchnitz, Baron von, in Metz, 370, 372
Taunus, the, 30
Telephone Service, Army, 328-330
Tellancourt, 119
Termonde, 252, 285
Tetanus, cases of, 152, 210
_Tête de Flandre_, Germans at, 236, 237
Tettenborn, Lieut.-Gen. von, 373, 377
Theft, German punishment of, 170, 195, 223, 367
Thiébaut, M., of Nancy. 104
Thüringer, Wald, the, 27
Tibet, the author in, 53, 62, 190, 248, 351
_Times, The_, quoted, 231 note, 367
Tirpitz, Admiral von, 50
in Brussels, 242
Togoland, German Governor of, 296
Trade, Germany captures the world’s, 257, 270
Treis, 35
Treitschke, xvi
Trelleborg, 3
Trenches, life in the, 75, 177, 188, 320-327
Treutler, Herr von, in Antwerp, 245
in Luxemburg, 51
Trèves, 145
the author at, 36-44
_Trèves Gazette_, 130
Trutz, Captain, 301
Tschammer, Baron von, at Vouziers, 158, 169, 196
Tsingtau, fall of, 79, 160
Tuaregs, the, 39
Tubize, 299
Turcos, the, 354
Turenne, statue of, 139, 185, 368
Turkey, von der Goltz in, 215
Turkish fleet, the, 344
Uhlans of the Guard, the, 17, 35, 74, 93, 112
in Belgium, 224, 230, 233, 236
Ukraine, 191
Vabitj, 191
Vacha, 28
Valenciennes, 300
Vandervelde, M., at Ostend, 285
Van Dyck, birthplace of, 235
pictures by, 220
Varennes, 107, 146
engagement at, 84-103, 113
Vauban, memorials at Longwy, 119, 121
Vauquois, 94
Vélu, château of, 316
Venduyne, 288
Verdun, fortress of, 46, 61, 65, 105, 127, 200, 239
Verhaghen, pictures by, 220
Verlinghem, 313
Vernier, Madame du, 64, 103, 115
Verrier, Lieutenant, 31-33, 38
Very, 94
Vienna, the author in, 9
Vilosnes, 68
Vionville, 146
Visby, 248
Vitry, battle of, 48
Voort, van der, carving by, 249, 250
Vosges, the, 239
Vouziers, the author at, 142, 144-146, 150, 169, 173, 182, 186-196,
200
_Wacht am Rhein, Die_, 235, 341
Wachtmeister, Count, 367
Waelhem, 221, 225, 230
Wagner, Richard, 159
Waldemar, Prince, in Brussels, 231
in Luxemburg, 48, 122
_War and Culture_, Steffen’s, 231, 352, 354, 367 note
War, its psychology, 11
of 1870, Franco-Prussian, 10, 34, 57, 136-139, 146
of 1914-15, probable outcome of, 10
Russo-Japanese, 11
Warsaw, 168
Wartha, the, 79
Wasserbillig, 44
Waterloo, the author at, 210-214
Wavre, 297
Wedel, Prince von, 9
Weddigen, sinks the _Cressy_, _Aboukir_ and _Hogue_, 113, 129
Wegener, Professor Georg, 233
Weimar, 125
author in, 26
Weller, Major von, 299
Wellington, 1st Duke of, at Waterloo, 211, 212, 230
on Antwerp, 270
Werder, General von, 272
Anton von, his pictures of the capitulation of 1870, 137, 138, 158
Werra, the, 28
Wervicq, 357
Wessling, Swedish officer, 146
Western front, length of the, 186, 239, 289
Widenmann, Professor, 62, 114
Wiesbaden, 30
Wilamovitz, Countess, 17
William I., King of Prussia, at Ems, 31-34
at Sedan, 136
statue of, 34
William II., Kaiser, at Douai, 345-347
author’s interviews with, in Luxemburg, 49-54, 123
creates a Navy, 50, 53, 242
grants the author leave to visit the front, 46
his efforts to avert war, 24, 49, 53, 192, 336
his health, 54
his jubilee, 49
his piety, 53
in Metz, 370
visits French prisoners, 32
William III., of England, King, 213
Wimpffen, General, at Donchery, 1870, 137
Winckler, Lieut.-Gen. von, 319, 323, 327
Wine, Germans do not practise abstinence from, 147, 183
Wittenberg, 20
Wittisch, Lieut.-Col., 272, 273
Wittlich, 36
Woevre, 211
Wounded, uniform treatment of, 35, 38-42, 47, 48, 69, 98-102, 133,
151-158, 257, 291
Württemberg, 15, 19
Duke Albrecht of, victory of, 127;
author meets, 165, 168
Landwehr, 74
troops, 93, 127, 196
Xivry, 369
Ypres, xv, 79, 317, 357
English prisoners from, 359-361
Yser Canal, the, 271, 284
fighting on, 290, 295, 317
Zeppelins over Antwerp, 251
Zimmermann, Herr von, Under Secretary of State, 14
Zinsser, Dr., at Vouziers, 150-152, 186
Zobeltitz, Lieut. von, 62
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