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Show DECLARE GERMAN WORKMEN WEARY, BUT DETERMINED ROTTERDAM, Monday, Feb. 12, via London, Feb. 13. Two Americans who have reached Rotterdam since the break in diplomatic relations between Germany and the United States although in both cases their passports had been applied for before t lie rupture gave similar accounts ac-counts of presents conditions in Germany Ger-many to the Associated Press today. One of these men came from Berlin, the other from Frankfort. Each had been in Germany Ger-many a little more than a year and in that time each man lost thirty pounds In weight. Theodore Wurslin, an engineer of Jamaica, X. T., satd hiB experiences with workingmen in Berlin showed him that they were tired of the war, but nevertheless neverthe-less determined to hold out. Many otf them earn good wages, virtually all ot which they spend for food, and they are thus better off than persons higher In the social scale. Hr. Wuslin said he often saw groups of British, French and Russian Rus-sian prisoners, especially 'Russians, sweeping the streets, carting goods and performing other labor. He said they were never molested or insulted. Of Mr. Witrslin's ten American associates, about half had decided to remain re-main in Germany whatever happened. The other American Is a New York business man, who said the food situation was very bad in Frankfort. He told harrowing har-rowing stories of the hardships undergone under-gone by the people, who, he said, were 1 utterly weary of the war, but entirely devoted to the military leaders. ! Both these men asserted that the break between Germany and America had , caused no excitement, that Americans in Germany were being well treated and that no apprehension need be felt for the welfare of those left behind. While agreeing agree-ing that most articles of food were still to be had by persons with we II -filled purses, they said the poorer classes were suffering, but that the country was not near the starvation point. |