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Passengers Had Suffered Many Hardships When on the ContinentUNTERiVlYER 'ON BOARDMiss Florence Ralph nf Buffalo Heard the Kaiser Deliver Speech In Berlin in Which He Declared Swotd Was Forced Into His Hand(By Associated Prtss.)Lt’’iNew Ynrlr. Aug. 22.—The Star Imer Baltic ' arrived* lo-cfox from Liverpool and Queers town with 2,120 passengers and nearly 6,000 sacks of mail. The passengers included more . than lj5G0 American refugees from the war zone, who managed to reach either Quaenato’w nor Liverpool from the continent after suffering manyhardships. •Saves hundred of the 1,190 passengers In the s leer a go were Americana who hurt been unable to sccuro accom-jRodBiioiin In the flrGt and . eucond cabins. There were many complaints among them of crowded nuw*tTB’and of Inconveniences, Among the Pas-5ieliters was Mies Florence Ralph of Buffcioo Wh, nt the .milWorth of hpa-tilt ties' was studying music In Berlin. She told fin Interring lt;rtcry of her escape from the continent For three days beta re Germany declweu war,' Miss Ralph said, the crowds In TTnter den Tendon .were bo . great that tho avenuo was • Impassable,’ Bile heard the Emperor deliver the. speech In which Ikv-colrt his word had been forced Into hln hah da by his enemies'.' As ho Bftld it, Miss Ralph, declared, he .patted the hilt of a heavy cahor that twls hanging at his sldo and tears came into his oyca. / Tho Gormans cheered tho Emperor's speech until ha told thnm to go to the churches wid pray. Tho crowd became'solemn then.- Buffalo Woman's Story,The day befora I left Berlin’ tho authorities Issued strict orders,*' she or Id, that no parades. of citizen 9 ehould bo allowed and that any pcr-«ons found singing patriotic: pongs would bo Immediately arrested. ■ The Idea vns, T understand, that tho gov-ornmcnt, wanted to impress upon tho people that It waa.n time to bo solemn and not to bb overconfident. I saw the ctown princft riding. along ttnter den Linden .’on his way to join his(Continued on Page 3.) ..
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Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Sun, Aug 23, 1914
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