MY SECRET SERVICE BY THE MAN WHO DINED WITH THE KAISER MY SECRET SERVICE VIENNA, SOPHIA, CONSTANTINOPLE, NISH, BELGRADE, ASIA MINOR, Etc. BY THE MAN WHO DINED WITH THE KAISER [Illustration: Logo] NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY Copyright, 1916, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 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!_”--Roumania Eager 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