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Show 1EU REFUGEES. DIVIK6 IM LONDON IN NEEO OF HELP' Two Thousand Crowd Rooms of Relief Re-lief Committee. Many Americanized Ameri-canized Germans r mi London, Sept. 7. Among the 2duO Americana who crowded the rooms ot the American rellofcoramlttee hen It opened this morning wero 160 who cambover froaHavro on the American Amer-ican cruiser 'Tennessee. The " re-nialnder re-nialnder wero chinyfrom Flushing, Osiend and Rotterdam and. wero largely Americanized .Germans, who are. virtually without money md who must bo assisted back to the United States., by the committee Refugees from Germany say there Is stl(l a large number of American citizens lu Germany who are unablo to get out because ot the limited train facilities. There are only'two tralnsV day from Berlin to Rotterdam each carrying 200 passengers, conse quently Americans are filtering out ot the German capital very slowly. Other refugees report that Rotterdam Is still crowded and that mauy Americans Am-ericans are waiting in Holland tor an opportunity to get to England. .. A large proportion of the fugitives who aro applying to the committee' for relief are absolutely penniless. The crowd this morning was so great that tho cpmmlttce merely gavoap plIcantB onough 'mbney to buy something some-thing to eat and issued cards which will be presented Jn, the day() taV the finance committee, for further "help. Although the committee iihs7-been well systematized ''and has a corps ot efficient helpers, Us roons at the Savoy hotel have become Inadequate, and It may become necessary to get larger quarters. " Herbert C. Hoover, chairman ot the committee, does not believe that the continent will be tree ot American Ameri-can refugees for thirty days yet. Those arriving today are In much greater need of help than the earlier arrivals, being mostly persons of limited lim-ited means who havq.exhaustad their funds. , One hundred and sixty-five Americans, Amer-icans, the greater number well to do women, arrived here today from Weymouth, Wey-mouth, where they were lauded by the American cruiser Tennessee. They spent lastnlgbt aboard cruiser cruis-er beccusu of a lack ot accommodations accommoda-tions on shore? They had a fine trip across tho channel and spoke highly ot the comfort aboard the ship and tho attention ot tho officers and crew. |
