| Show VICTIM OF GERMAN irvin fl cobb writes write of work of beut beast of berlin as a he saw it in london hospital ID a london hospital I 1 saw a little girl farl who had been most mast terribly med la in an air raid I 1 am not golna going to dwell on the state of this child when I 1 think of her I 1 have bare not the words to express the feelings that I 1 have but one of hr her hands was wag gone fit at the wrist and tho the other hand bond was wa badly shattered Bhatt ered to 0 o she was just a wan van little brutally abbreviated fragment of humanity a living traction fraction most afflicted her eler rounds had ceased to pain her the dead nurse told nie me before we entered and for the rest of the time she was a good patient one of the best in the ward she was lying when I 1 asniv her with her ber hepa propped upon a pillow that was no whiter than her face was and there wasa pitiful wraith of a smile on en her poor little pinched commonplace face and to her breast with the bandaged stump of one arm am and with her remaining hand that was st swathed in a clump of wrapping she cuddled up it a painted chino china doll which some bady had bad brought to her and she ehe was singing to it the sight I 1 take it would have been very gra cloin la in the eyes of his imperial majesty of prussia drussia except of course that the little girl still lived that naturally would be a drawback to his complete enjoyment of the spectacle iraln S cobb in the saturday evening post |
