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There is nothing doing in Paris but steady preparation for meeting contingencies by organizing ambulances and relief for the poor." From the thousands of tales brought back by American tourists caught in Germany at the outbreak of the war, there is more than enough evidence that they were not treated with that courtesy manifested towards them by the French.

They were arrested as spies, subjected to all sorts of embarrassments and indignities; their persons searched, their baggage and letters examined, and frequently were detained for long periods without any explanation being offered.

When finally taken to the frontier, they were not merely put across--frequently they were in a sense thrown across.
Nor were the subjects of other nations, particularly those with which Germany was at war, treated with that fine restraint which characterized the French.

Here is an account by a traveller of the treatment of Russian subjects: "We left Berlin on the day Germany declared war against Russia.

Within seventy-five miles of the frontier, 1,000 Russians in the train by which they were travelling were turned out of the carriage and compelled to spend eighteen hours without food in an open field surrounded by soldiers with fixed bayonets.
"Then they were placed in dirty cattle wagons, about sixty men, women and children to a wagon, and for twenty-eight hours were carried about Prussia without food, drink or privacy.