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Title: A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes

Author: Harriet Julia Jephson

Release Date: November 18, 2007 [EBook #23533]

Language: English

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A WAR-TIME JOURNAL

GERMANY 1914
AND
GERMAN TRAVEL NOTES

[Illustration: ENGLISCHE KRIEGSFUeHRUNG
(_How the Englishman makes war._)]

A
WAR-TIME JOURNAL
GERMANY 1914
AND
GERMAN TRAVEL NOTES

BY

LADY JEPHSON

AUTHOR OF 'A CANADIAN SCRAP-BOOK' AND
'LETTERS TO A DEBUTANTE'

LONDON
ELKIN MATHEWS, CORK STREET
M CM XV

PREFACE

Prefaces are rarely read, yet I have the hardihood to venture on this
one because there are certain things in connection with my journal
which it is necessary to explain. On returning from Germany, although
urged by my friends to publish the story of my experiences, I refused,
fearing to do anything which in the smallest degree might prejudice
the case of those still in captivity. There came a day, nevertheless,
when I read that all English people had left "Altheim." The papers
announced that men under forty-five had been interned at Ruhleben, and
those over that age had been sent to Giessen. There seemed, therefore,
no possible object in further withholding the journal, since, after
all, there was nothing in it whi