Chapter VIII: Augusts 4th (the kidnapping part I)
The day was almost at the end, when several German officers belong to a Uhlan regiment where taking another beer in a well supplied barn of a farm, one of the officers, a major named Reger was celebrating his 30 birthday, one of hiss fellow collages told him that a special guest would arrive to congratulate him, not soon as that was told the door of the farm was open and in came a tall German officer wearing a general uniform, a cheer went up ''Es lebe der Kronprinz', the offer that stepped into the barn was none other than the German Crown Prince Wilhelm, commander of the 5th German Army who was inspecting German border troops.
After having spend some time among the officers the crown prince went outside to order his bodyguards to feed his horse, but when he did not return one of the German officers inside the barn went outside and discovered that the crown prince after having given his bodyguards some orders had disappeared.