Toward the end of March, 1915, a French warship approached the bay of Haifa and landed an officer with a letter to the commandant of that town giving notice of his intention to bombard the German Consulate at 3 P.M. sharp.

Not one house in the neighborhood of the consulate was touched, but the consulate itself was a heap of ruins after a few shells had struck it.

Not one house in the neighborhood of the consulate was touched, but the consulate itself was a heap of ruins after a few shells had struck it.

When I went to the American Consulate-General to get the permit, I found the building crowded with people of all nations,Spanish and Greek and Dutch and Swiss,all waiting for the precious little papers that should take them aboard the American cruiser, that haven of liberty and safety.

With a sinking at my heart I rushed up to the American Consulate for details and there learned that the U.S.S. Des Moines was to sail in a few hours for Rhodes with Italian and Greek refugees and that I could go on her if I wished.

There is no Protestant church; Mr. Hay reads service in the British Consulate, and invites the Protestant residents.

The consuls are accustomed to decide upon and control the affairs of their own countrymen, and those placed under their protection; but when a Moor and an European are concerned in a transaction, it is usually a mixed commission of the consulate and the Moorish authorities.

Post and Telegraph Office, English Vice-Consulate, &c. Cabs.

He prospered in the Revolution, bought the confiscated Church lands at a low price, married the daughter of a wealthy timber merchant, was made mayor under the consulate, became Monsieur Grandet when the empire was established, and every year grew wealthier and more miserly.

The extant works of this great writer are the "Life of Agricola," his father-in-law; his "Annales," which begin with the death of Augustus, 14 A.D., and close with the death of Nero, 68 A.D.; the "Historiae," which comprise the period from the second consulate of Galba, 68 A.D., to the death of Domitian; and a treatise on the Germans.

Modern France went on steadily to a readjustment, on the basis of unification, simplification of administration, and equality before the law, first under the Directory, then under the Consulate, and finally under the Empire.

One by one my documents were disposed ofan American passport issued in London; a permit from the German Consul at Maastricht, Holland, to enter "the territory of Belgium-Germany," finally, this letter of introduction from the American Consulate at Ghent: Consulat Americain.

Over the German seal were the words, "At the Imperial German Vice-Consulate the foregoing signature is hereby attested to be that of Souten, the Police Commissioner of Maastricht."

If you want to go sight-seeing in Belgium, take this paper and get it countersigned at the German consulate.

The clatter of machine gun bullets sweeping by the consulate had scarcely ceased when the sounds of gun-butts battering on the doors accompanied by hoarse shouts of "Auf Steigen" (get up) reverberated through the street.

" We instinctively looked across at the square, three-story, pressed-brick home of the Chinese Consulate and bank.

It is one of the most ghastly of all the dreadful incidents of Turkish repressions, for the Cretans, pacifically assembled without arms, were arrested, and all their magnates, for the better repression of discontent and to overawe rebellions to come, were hanged on the orange-trees in such numbers that, as the old consul of Sweden, an eye-witness, told me during my consulate, the orchard was hung with them, and left there to rot.

But the aged man said the consulate was close to where the shells were falling and that to approach it was as much as his life was worth.

I found our consul, William Bardel, at the consulate.

The street in front of the consulate is a mass of fallen stone, and the morning I called on Mr. Bardel a shell had hit his neighbor's chestnut- tree, filled his garden with chestnut burrs, and blown out the glass of his windows.

Their office hours were from twelve to twelve, and each consulate had taken out an all-night license and thrown away the key.

But at last we reached the consulate and laid siege.

The American consulate is at No. 14 Rue Kellermann.

That morning a shell had hit the chestnut-tree in the garden of his neighbor, at No. 12, and had knocked all the chestnuts into the garden of the consulate.

There were chamberlains and lackeys, grooms and outriders; splendid dinners and evening parties were given, and the ambassadors of foreign powers were received in solemn audience; for, now, all the European states had recognized the French Republic under the consulate, and, as Bonaparte had concluded peace with England and Austria, these two great powers also sent envoys to the court of the mighty consul.