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been mobilized with his regiment.  It was four days before he was convinced that Germany had invaded Belgium.  "Oh, I was awful prostrated," he said.  The Swiss were in painful anxiety for the Germans could get into the country at Basle.  The Swiss troops were concentrated there.  He told of the work for the French refuges, train loads of them.  His wife took part in the work, also.  The women had baths prepared for the refuges. (I laughed inwardly--I had a mental picture of the Swiss meeting the poor things with soap and water. "From what I've seen of this country so far, I wonder they do not scrub us at the frontier--I never saw such beautiful cleanness in my life as here.) Dr. B said the poor French peasants were afraid their babies would be drowned, they were not used to such things.  All the refuges were bathed, put into clean clothes and fed, then sent on into small villages.  One day a baby somehow got left behind, unclaimed.  They put the baby on the arm of a soldier and sent him through the cars calling "To whom the child?" and finally located the mother.  He told of a girl who arrived with a broken leg.  She had refused to get on the train, (they were being turned out by the Germans--preparatory to shelling the town, I supposed--and a soldier had thrown her on the train so roughly that somehow her leg was broken.) They filled the Geneva hospitals with the sick.  Altogether the Swiss seem to me the finest thing in humanity I ever saw.  This morning I got here [[underlined]] so [[/underlined]] tired and dirty (I wonder they didn't scrub me) the lovliness of the place struck me as I came to the hotel from the station.  It was so [[underlined]] clean [[/underlined]], it was a joy to behold after filthy, smelly Italy.  But there was a feeling of something else that I took in in big breaths--it was a glorious day--I suddenly remembered that this blessed country had not been indulging in an orgy of murder.  I guess that accounts for the healthy, sane atmosphere.  Dr. Briquet said that Switzerland had lost 60 percent of her wealth by reason of the war, through foreign investments, loss of trade, etc.