Show I GERMANS HOPE FOR SPEEDY WAR AR END Last Winter Not So Severe for Po Poor r Says Returning Returning Returning Return Return- ing Ameri American an By Associated Press AN ATLANTIC PORT March 7 7 Due to a better system of food tood distribution distri and more rigid control of ot food supplies by means of ot ration cards the thelast thelast last winter in Germany was not so severe bevere on the tho poor people as was the previous winter according to Miss Elizabeth glizabeth McCann an American who with her three sIsters Bisters arrived here to today today today to- to day on a Danish steamship They left Germany German last December she said after re residing reiding l ing in that country for fourteen years and were on their way to make mako their home in Philadelphia The people are hoping for peace to come soon Miss McCann said I 1 do donot donot not believe there will be bo an uprising of ot any consequence as long as the war lasts for the Germans apparently have every confidence they will win Wo We made our our home In Hamburg and we were practically interned fro from the day America entered the warThe warThe warThe war The German people know America has joined the other nations against them but they seem to believe what they have been t told that told that enough soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers to h help lp the allies to any extent will not be able ablO to cross the Atlantic Two other Americans on the ship who left Germany the same month were Mr and Mrs Fred Rente of ot Detroit Detroit De De- De- De who representative troit Mr 11 Rente was tive at a town near Magdeburg Magdeburg Magdeburg Magde Magde- burg for tor an American n manufacturing company said that food was scarce and closely rationed but that there was plenty for those who had money to pay for it II |