I have told them, 'Either we all stay here or we all start together.

No one will be given up.' That appears to have somewhat quieted their fears.
"As might be expected, these nocturnal visits had disagreeable consequences for us.

The Roumanians apparently thought that it was not a question of Zeppelins, but of Austro-Hungarian airships, and that my presence in the town would afford a certain protection against the attacks; after the first one they declared that for every Roumanian killed ten Austrians or Bulgarians would be executed, and the hostile treatment to which we were subjected grew worse and worse.

The food was cut down and was terribly bad, and finally the water supply was cut off.

With the tropical temperature that prevailed and the overcrowding of a house that normally was destined to hold twenty, and now housed 170, persons, the conditions within the space of twenty-four hours became unbearable and the atmosphere so bad that several people fell ill with fever, and neither doctor nor medicine was obtainable.