TO
LORD NORTHCLIFFE
IN GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION
OF THE KEEN INTEREST HE
HAS SHOWN IN THESE
ADVENTURES, THIS VOLUME IS
DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
Introductory[19]
“Were You Afraid?”—About Myself—War
Finds Me in England—The German
War-Machine—My Travels—The German
Spy System—My Three Journeys—I Become
a Workman at Krupp’s—I Travel in
Chocolate—My Most Important Trip—The
Risks—Proofs—My Reception in England.
CHAPTER II
Vienna in War Time[26]
I Set Out for the Enemy Country—The
German Official Mind—Turned Back at the
Frontier—Arrived at Vienna—The Kindly
Hofrat—Hatred of the English—A Subdued
City—Hardships—The Hidden
Scourge—The Toll of War—Austria’s Terrible
Casualties—The Tragic 28th Regiment—“Mr.
Wu” in Vienna—Interned Englishmen.
CHAPTER III
In the Balkans[48]
I Leave Vienna—Gay Bucharest—The
Bandmaster’s Indiscretion—“À bas les
allemands!”—RoumaniaEager for War—German
Devices—An English Cigarette—A
Terrible Journey—The Spoils of War—The
Wily German—Bulgarian Poverty
Under the Germans—Austrian Satisfaction
over the Serbian Victories—Compulsion in
England—Bulgarian Anxiety about the Attitude
of Greece—The German Language in Bulgaria.
CHAPTER IV
Constantinople[69]
I Leave Sofia—A Valuable Document—The
Change in Adrianople—The Bulgars in
Possession—The Turk Determined to Fight—I
Adopt the Fez—War Pressure—The
Fate of Enemy Subjects—A Way They
Have in Turkey—The Financial Situation—Enver
Goes to Berlin—A Turkish Girl
Clerk—A Quick Change—A City of Darkness.
CHAPTER V
I Interview Enver Pasha[87]
Germanising the Turkish War Office—Halil
Bey—Wireless Disguised as a
Circus—Enver Pasha Receives Me—The
Turkish Napoleon—Something of a Dandy—“If
the English Had Only Had the Courage”—“To
Egypt!”—Turkey’s Debt to
Great Britain—Affairs before Manners—A
German Tribute to British Troops—Their
Designs in the Suez Canal—German War
Plans—Where to Kill Germans—The Baghdad
Expedition—German Officers in Mufti.
CHAPTER VI
I Visit Asia Minor[104]
A Remarkable Railway Station—I Leave
for Konia—The Anatolian Railway—How
to Get to Baghdad—Elaborate Instructions—Necessity
for Caution—English and
French Prisoners—Instructing the Turk in
the Arts of Peace—A Noisy Sleeper—Hamburg’s
Hatred of Great Britain—Sops
to Austria and Turkey—Field-Marshal Von
der Goltz—I Return to Constantinople.
CHAPTER VII
Constantinople from Within[120]
A City of Maimed and Wounded—I See
the Sultan—Enver’s Popularity—Talaat
Bey the Real Administrator—Gallipoli Day—Constantinople
“Mafficks”—The Return
of the Ten Thousand—How the Goeben and
Breslau Escaped—Their Fateful Arrival at
Constantinople—German Privileges—Mendacities
of the Turkish Press—The Egyptian
Situation—A German Camel Corps—The
Turks a Formidable Factor.
CHAPTER VIII
The “Untersee” German[135]
My Kiel Acquaintance—Submarines by
Rail—German Submarines at Constantinople—My
Voyage of Discovery—The Exploit
of U51—Captain von Hersing—German
Hero-Worship—A Daring Feat—A
Modest German!—Von Hersing in
England—The German Naval Officer—His
Opinion of the British Navy—A Regrettable
Incident—Dr. Ledera Imprisoned—I
Encounter an Austrian Spy—He Confides
to Me his Methods—The Carelessness of
British Consuls.
CHAPTER IX
“Our Kaiser is Here!”[152]
Getting Out of Constantinople—I Become
Suspicious—I Appeal to Halil Bey—A
Gloomy Apartment—I Visit the Prefecture
of Police—I Join a Military Train—Marvellous
Engineering—A Subtle Device—The
Kaiser at Nish—I See the Two Monarchs—A
Remarkable Stroke of Luck—I
am Invited to the Banquet—Fokker Aeroplanes.
CHAPTER X
The Banquet at Nish[169]
The Banqueting Hall—A Small Gathering—The
Menu—The Kaiser and King Ferdinand—Von
Falkenhayn—An Impressive
Figure—The Kaiser’s Health—His Poor
Appetite—Constant Coughing—King Ferdinand’s
Triumph—The Bulgarian Princes—German
Journalism—A Bombastic Oration—“Hail,
Cæsar!”—The Kaiser’s Unspoken
Reply—The Hour of “The Fox”—The
End of an Historic Function—The
Post Office Closed.
CHAPTER XI
The Balkan Express[191]
Existence of the Balkan-Zug Denied—A
Great Strategical Factor—The Publicity
Train—German Economy—I Join the Balkan-Zug
at Nish—King Ferdinand a Fellow-Passenger—His
Condescension—Excellent
Food—Ruined Belgrade—Arrival at
Buda Pesth—A Tremendous Ovation—Russian
Prisoners at Work—Arrival at
Vienna—Another Tremendous Reception—Remarkable
Punctuality.
CHAPTER XII
French Thoroughness[213]
I Leave Vienna—I am Ordered Back—I
Risk Proceeding on My Journey—A Friendly
Hungarian Officer—Over the Swiss Frontier—My
Frankness My Undoing—The
French Super-Official—I am Detained
Somewhere in France—My Protests Unavailing—I
am Suspected of the Plague—Left
Behind—The Daily Mail to the Rescue—Profuse
Apologies—I Proceed to
Paris—“You Will Never Convince England”—London
at Last—Rest.
CHAPTER XIII
The German Menace[229]
After Thoughts—The Great Factor—National
Service—False Ideas as to the German
Soldier—The Danger of Under-estimating
Germany’s Resources—Great Britain’s
Helpers—Crush the German—“Wait
Till We Get to England.”

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
Vienna Bread Ticket[38]
Halil Bey’s Card[155]
Music Programme at the Nish Banquet[170]
Menu at the Nish Banquet[172]
My Ticket on the Balkan Express[196]