The Berlin press was represented by Count Von Sierasowsie, an invalid officer with both legs cut off.

He had to be carried around in a perambulator.

He had a private soldier, which the German government allowed him, as a servant.

The balance of the reporters were from France and England.

A boat about forty feet long and eight feet wide was purchased and two men, who professed to know something about the channel of the Rhine, engaged to navigate it.