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WITH THE GERMAN
ARMIES IN THE WEST
CHAPTER I
ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT
The tocsin bell has ceased to ring. Swedish men are
no longer being called to arms. Quiet has once
more descended upon Stockholm, and it is only
occasionally that one encounters a detachment of Landsturm
men marching through the streets to join their units or on
their way home. People go about their business in the old
familiar way. It would be hard to believe that the great
world-war was raging outside, did not the newspapers with
their great black headlines and their fateful contents form a
sinister reminder.
But the individual who under these conditions started out
from the Stockholm Central terminus with Berlin as his
immediate objective, was only too well aware that it was not
an ordinary trip on the Continent on which he was embarking.
He travelled from the quiet of the North to the storm in the
South—to the great capital where history was being made,
the heart of the great empire which was at war with seven
states, of which four were great powers. When Stockholm’s
thousand lights faded into the distance, he felt that peace
faded away with them, and that each passing day would
bring him nearer to war. He was committed to a journey
the spell of which would each day grow stronger, and he was
a prey to a tension which was only to give way before the
excitement and the thrill of action.
The train clanged through the pitch-black night, and the
rain wove its delicate tracery on the window-panes. On
Trelleborg quay only a couple of baggage and mail wagons
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