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[[underlined]] August 4, 1914 - Tuesday [[/underlined]]

A rainy morning. I walked to the Hamburg-Am. office, but found no one there but the "sweep". I then walked to no. 122 Dufour str., the Austrian Consulate. I found a big crowd in the streets waiting for entrance. My card form Mr. Wilber gained prompt entrance for me. In the anteroom I found a Moravian (prospective recruit) who had had his leg badly injured by the street-car. No surgeon could be secured, as all had gone with the army, so a policeman(?) washed and bandaged the wound, and they took him to the hospital, where some nurses remained. I met Mr. von Jaeger, explained the purpose of my visit to Prague, and he O.K'ed my passport. I then bought a ticket to Linz, via Innsbruck, after showing my pass. I paid 29.10 Fr. for a 3rd class ticket, and had 15 centimes left! Hence I could get

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nothing more to eat until I crossed the Austrian boundary: I had German and Austrian money, but it was difficult to exchange this.
I again visited the Hamburg-Am. office on Bahnhoffstrasse, but they had not information.
An English-speaking elderly gentleman, evidently American, just came in from Budapest, via Vienna, and he said there was more excitement here than he had seen anywhere along the line.
I returned to the hotel and found Bertha and Paul. They cannot cross to Germany or France, and exchange on German money is about 30%! They will get a passport, and as this must come from the Embassy at Berne, it will require at least two days. Hence they will remain. Paul will try to dispose of his German money to those who are going home to Germany, - and there seem to be many such.