contain any Prussian Guards. 
  Prussian Guards among them.  I did not happen to see
                                   that train.  All the trains
                                   that I saw unloaded Prussian
                                   Guard Reserves.

  2.  No wounded man is I have never said that
  kept concealed in Germany. any wounded man was
  All are consigned to kept concealed in Germany.
  public hospitals or I have pointed out
  lazarets, where they may that the whole system of
  at any time be visited the German placing of the
  by their relatives and wounded is to hide from
  friends. the German population,
                                   and especially in Social
                                   Democrat districts, the
                                   extent of their wounded.

3.  Hospital trains travel This is absolutely untrue. by day as well as by night, The number of wounded arriving and, in accordance with at the depots in Germany is instructions, are unloaded now so great that the trains only in the daytime.  In are obliged to be unloaded case they reach their whenever they arrive, by day destination during the or by night.  I have witnessed night, the regulations both. provide that they are to wait until the following morning before unloading.

4.  In order that the loading The whole of this paragraph or unloading of the vehicles is a transparent distortion which transport the wounded of fact.  What happens at to the lazarets may proceed Potsdam and what happens as rapidly as possible, it everywhere else is that a is necessary to keep the cordon of police surrounds surroundings of the train the scene and, drives the clear.  The wounded must public by force in the usual also be spared all annoyance Prussian way, if necessary, and curiosity on the part from the scene.  I described of the public. the method by which I
                                 witnessed what was going on
at the railway station from
the railway station
refreshment room itself.

5.  Dead men have never been I saw the dead men removed. unloaded from the lazaret trains at Potsdam—­therefore there could have been none on August 4, 1916.  The principle of transporting the wounded is based upon the ability of the wounded to bear transportation.  All those who suffer during the journey are removed to a hospital at the frontier.

  6.  The furniture vans A transparent untruth
  used for transporting on the face of it.  If only
  wounded to the hospitals one train came into Potsdam
  at Potsdam and other why use