CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| INTRODUCTORY | [1] |
| CHAPTER I | |
| MY FIRST WAR-TIME JOURNEY TO BERLIN | [11] |
| CHAPTER II | |
| POTSDAM AND HAMBURG | [55] |
| CHAPTER III | |
| CONSTANTINOPLE | [75] |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| BULGARIA AND GREECE | [121] |
| CHAPTER V | |
| MY SECOND WAR-TIME VISIT TO BERLIN | [142] |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| VIENNA | [184] |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| SWITZERLAND | [196] |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| ITALY | [205] |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| FRANCE | [221] |
| CHAPTER X | |
| HOLLAND | [240] |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| ANTWERP—THE DEAD CITIES OF BRABANT | [259] |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| BRUSSELS, TOURNAI, AND THE GERMAN FRONT | [284] |
WHAT I SAW IN BERLIN
AND OTHER EUROPEAN CAPITALS
INTRODUCTORY
The golden days of the war correspondents have long since passed away; the unlimited freedom allowed to newspaper correspondents during the 1870 war, the fact that Germany could know every move, every change of front, even the exact figures of the different contingents of troops, by the simple method of getting the Paris papers, and the many instances during both the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese Wars, in which supposed war correspondents turned out to be dangerous spies, have made the commanders of the fighting armies extremely careful; and the war correspondent is kept so far from the firing-line that even if he manages to get near to the front, he is allowed to see practically nothing, and his report is based only on what he can get out of soldiers back from the line of fire.
Moreover, the enormously wide front of the modern battlefield makes it absolutely impossible for the war correspondent to gain anything like an exact idea of what is going on. His work is essentially a work of analysis, analysis of the section in which he moves, but the synthesis of the whole movement is bound to escape his observation.