"Today as the train in which I was passed over the
Kiel Canal an attempt was made to search all our
luggage as if we might have hidden some instrument
of destruction. Thanks to the interference of Major
von Rheinbaben, we were spared this insult. But
they went further.
"They obliged us to remain each in his own
compartment, the windows and blinds having been
closed. During this time, in the corridors of the
carriages at the door of each compartment and
facing each one of us, stood a soldier, revolver in
hand, finger on the trigger, for nearly half an hour.
"I consider it my duty to protest against this
threat of violence to the Ambassador of the
Republic and the staff of his Embassy, violence
which nothing could even have made me anticipate.
"Yesterday I had the honor of writing to your
Excellency that I was being treated almost as a
prisoner. Today I am being treated as a dangerous
prisoner. Also I must record that during our
journey which from Berlin to Denmark has taken
twenty-four hours, no food has been prepared nor
provided for me nor for the persons who were
traveling with me to the frontier.
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