LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| The Author as he appeared on the Day of his Release from Ruhleben | [Frontispiece] |
| "The Bloody Night of September 11, 1914" | [198] |
| The Aftermath of the "Bloody Night" | [226] |
| Facsimile of the Pass issued by the German authorities to the Author on his leaving Sennelager for Cöln-on-Rhein | [238] |
PRISON ONE—WESEL
CHAPTER I
ARRESTED AS A SPY
"Start August First. Book tickets immediately."
Such were the instructions I received at Brighton early in July, 1914, from Prince ——. A few days previously I had spent considerable time with this scion of the Russian nobility discussing the final arrangements concerning my departure to his palace in Russia, where I was to devote two months to a special matter in which he was deeply interested, and which involved the use of special and elaborate photographic apparatus, microscopes, optical lantern and other accessories. I may mention that the mission in question was purely of scientific import.