World War I
_Paris, Tuesday, August 4th._ I presented myself at the American Embassy today and offered my services to Mr. Herrick. They were promptly accepted. I was put to work with such suddenness that no time was spent in determining my official status. I cannot say whether I am a door...
_Vienna, Tuesday, January 12th._ Last night and today twenty-three long trains of German regular troops have passed through the Ivanka station on their way east. They were appar...
4. Chapter 4Colonel Allen, Captain Parker, and I had luncheon at the Grand Hotel. Hall arrived with the machine at two o'clock. He had packed into it, or tied to it, an immense stock of can...
1. Chapter 1_Paris, Tuesday, August 4th._ I presented myself at the American Embassy today and offered my services to Mr. Herrick. They were promptly accepted. I was put to work with such s...
11. Chapter 11_Budapest, Tuesday, December 29th._ I left Vienna at nine o'clock this morning and reached Budapest at two. I had tea with Mrs. Gerard, who is in Budapest visiting her sister, C...
8. Chapter 8_Berne, Saturday, November 28th._ Donait and I left Paris at nine last evening for Lyons, Culoz, and Geneva with dispatches for Berlin. For many reasons we are particularly anxi...
7. Chapter 7_Paris, Thursday, October 15th._ For the present the jottings in my diary grow farther and farther apart, as events worth recording have during the past weeks occurred with less...
5. Chapter 5_Monday, September 14th._ The equipment of the German soldier is in every detail a marvel of perfection. This impresses me more than any other single element of the war exceptin...
2. Chapter 2_Saturday, August 29th._ Paris feels the oppression of war more and more each day. There have been so many "morts pour la patrie" that everywhere there are families who have bee...
6. Chapter 6_Paris, Monday, October 12th._ In writing about the German, Austrian, and Hungarian subjects of whom we have had charge, I have spoken of them _en masse_. In reality there have...
3. Chapter 3_Paris, Sunday, September 6th._ Since the French Government left Paris we have been totally ignorant of all that is going on outside of the city walls. For the past few days eve...
9. Chapter 9_Thursday, December 10th._ Soon after the train left Berlin this morning I judged that I was being shadowed. When it pulled out of the station there were four people, including...
10. Chapter 10_Sunday, December 20th._ I presented myself at the American Embassy this morning, delivered my dispatches, and had a conference with Mr. Grant-Smith, the First Secretary. At lun...