+ consulate ceased to exist. The British minister, Mr. Grant Duff, with his wife + staff left Dresden at noon for England. We British subjects must now look to the American Consul for protection in case of need. This morning I visited both the Eng. + Am. consulates and walked about the town but was not molested in any way. Several Brit. subjects have been arrested but I think in every case through their own faults or else they have been mistaken for Russions + immediately released again. One young Canadian with another American youth was in a crowd near the royal palace and for some reason or other was whistling with his finger in his