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Show MANY STRANDED IN NETHERLANDS Men, Women and Children Travel for Hours Without Food Locked in Cars All Night. GERMANS WANT WAR United States Embassy Crowded Crowd-ed With Americans Asking for Money and Transportation. Trans-portation. London, Aug 4. Arriving today on what probably will be the last boat for some time from the Hook of Hol-and. Hol-and. W T Metzrath of New Brunswick, Bruns-wick, N. J , reported that the harbor of the Hook was being mined and the countless Americans were stranded in the Netherlands He said: stopped while on my way to Berlin. "At Hanover, Prussia, where I 1 saw a woman and her two children with $2500 in checks, but without any cash The American consul was un able to aid her. "Americans, however, are showing a splendid spirit and are dividing their last crust. We traveled without with-out food for 24 hours, locked in the cars all night in cramped positions. There was great suffering but the children and the women remained game "The Germans," he continued, "are enthusiastic for war, the men and women joining in patriotic adminiK tratlons. A rumor that Russia had decided on peace was received with regret One German said to me "it is a bad thing, we want to have it out now.' " There was a b(fe line of people in the street in front of the American Express company offices in London j today waiting to cash checks. Great crowds also thronged about the I steamship offices. The United J States embass was filled with Americans making the usual requests for money and for ships to take them home A few asked for passports hoping to rescue relatives on the con tinent |