General Grooten and the officers in command of the regiment were at the telephone exchange where news was constantly arriving.
General Ewers had depleted the troops who were already in the train ready to start, to put down the revolution in St. Petersburg and in Moscow.
The General, too, advised me to curtail as far as possible the number of servants, which I did during the course of the day with the assistance of Quartermaster von Kube, Colonel Gebel, and other persons who did not occupy the Alexander Palace, to whom I was authorized to allow a final visit.