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Show AMERICANS BRING HOME STORIES OF CERMAN CRUELTY (Spec al Cab e by Arrangement w h London Daily Te eg aph and In omatlona lews e NEW YORK, Sept 2 Ta ea of Ger man cruelty to d them by the wounded Belgian and Frencl sold ers they at tended In the hosp tal -were broug t to New York today by Sirs W P T HoU ngs-worth and 1 er four daughters i the Misses Jacqueline Hazel Gladys and; Bessie ! The Uollingsworths ha e res ded in France for the last fourteen ears Mr HoU ngsworth be ng the representative there of the TPestinghouse Electric com pany When war broke out they left the r cl ateau and went to a ho el n Hou aget T e hotel was later converted nto a hosp tal and the Ho Ingswo ths vo nteered as nurses Before the wounded Te e brought in we all made c othes for the fara es of Belgians who had been dr ven f om their homes said Mrs Hoi ngsworth and wh e we are staging with fr ends in "New Canaan Conn we are go ng to try to get clothing to forward to Europe for the same purposes We saw ourselves dumdum bullets that were extracted from wounded Be glans and e Bht men died from lockjaw caused the surgeons sa d by tl ese fearful and crue bu ets Many of the wounded to d us that German sur geons had severed the tendons In the r wrists as they lay 1 e pless on eg ound and thereby deprived them for 1 fe of the use of their hands Others told us that the Germans burned a 1 t e bad y wounded men with the dead after tl e ba,t es an 1 cor roborated tie story told earl in the war that women and children lad been driven ahead of the Germans who advanced over a bridge w ich vas be ng hed bj the allies of Charlero |