The ex-Kaiser arrived in Amerongen (40 miles east of Rotterdam) on Monday afternoon. He was accompanied by General von Falkenhayn and a large number of officers. He did not show himself when the train left Eysden, near the frontier, but all along the route crowds of people gathered, despite the rain, and hissed and hooted as the train passed. The imperial train of 11 carriages and two baggage trains reached the little station at Marn at 3.30 in pouring rain. Two or three hundred spectators waited the arrival of perhaps, the first guest whom Holland had not welcomed to internment here. At the station General Onnen, Chief of the Department of Internment, received the ex-Kaiser.
The Kaiser was in uniform, and, contrary to his appearance on his first arrival at Eysden, looked utterly miserable.
One of the Dutch railway staff expressed the general feeling accentuated by the grey, chilly and wet November day when he said: “It is like burying a living corpse.”