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They were dragged in his stead , as prisoners of state and dangerous criminals , to headquarters at the New Market . The two other writers , whom the Austrians pursued with furious zeal , were the two newspaper editors , Kretschmer and Krause . These two had no idea of such pursuit ; indeed , they did not even know that the Austrians had penetrated into the city . In the safe hiding-place in which both of them had passed the night they had only learned that Berlin had surrendered to the Russians , and that General Tottleben had ordered the magistrates to receive him the next morning at the Kottbuss Gate at eight o'clock . It was intended that the reception should be a brilliant and solemn one , and that the general should be mollified and conciliated by humble subjection ; it was also determined to endeavor , by an offering of money made to him individually , to induce him to make the contribution laid on the town moderate and light . The news was like a thunder-clap to the two editors , for it compelled them to leave their safe hiding-place , and to venture out into the dangerous world . For these gentlemen , editors of such renowned journals , who prided themselves on giving their readers the most recent and important intelligence , would not dare to be absent at the reception of the Russian general .