Excerpt from The McMaster University Monthly, Vol. 25: October, 1915, to May, 1916 Having secured one of the few surviving Paris taxis I was enabled to catch the night train to Switzerland. There were few civilians on board and we did not apparently follow any schedule nor did we have an opportunity to find out the names of the darkened towns through which we passed. At one station a lot of soldiers climbed off the train and picked their way through several hundred of their comrades who were sleeping peacefully upon the hard concrete platforms of the gore. I counted twenty different permutations and combinations of uniform, the most remarkable being a light blue tunic, green velvet trousers and a peaked cap of tweed. The war caught France at the very time the change from the old uniform to the new Was being effected. At the last station on the French side of the frontier'we were all escorted to a Shed where a final examination of passports was made. The half dozen soldiers on guard were dignified old fel lows wearing the garb of the War of '70; they appeared to take themselves very seriously. Among the passengers was a Swiss from London; he was unfortunately the possessor of a name which was hopelessly Teutonic - say Adolf Max Winterthur - and was slated for deten tion. Finally he produced a letter from the Swiss Consulate at London, which stated that the bearer was known personally by the Consular staff, had been ten years in London and was in favor of the Allies. This settled the matter and he was permitted to depart. Several consumptives bound for the sanatarium of Leysin and a few Belgians were all who continued the journey toward the Swiss border station. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.