A CONSUL'S EXPERIENCE
ROUGH TREATMENT -IN GERMANY. .'' •; London,jAugusi 19!- ■ Renter's Agency states that on July 30 the Consul's telegrams from- Dant-" eig were stopped and , the'telephones cut off. . The British Consul . (Mr. F. E. Drummond-Hay) and his family on August: 5 were given- an hour to pack, and were escorted iby'eoldiers- in a motorcar, to the station. Rifles were levelled at: them '. and' insults' ■ hurled! in 'every street;•)Angry ordwde' made a: demonstration at the station..' : ■ ~ The Consul's appeals for food .were .refused. Tho party arrived .at Stettin after twenty , -!out ■ hours! •; travelling, were bundled'into' another train, and reached Hamburg.after nineteen hours. They' Were continually insulted, and had no sleep throughout 'the'-' journey. At Hamburg tho ladies were submitted.to gross .indignities. : : •'.''." "'" Mr. Dnimmond-Hay and the French ' andßussian Consuls were paraded with criminals before being imprisoned." '
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2234, 21 August 1914, Page 6
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134A CONSUL'S EXPERIENCE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2234, 21 August 1914, Page 6
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