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Show HENRY- DISPUTES FOSTERGHflREES CHICAGO. March 24. Charges that conscientious ob.iectors were treated inhumanely in-humanely at Camp Funston and other national army cantonments were contained con-tained in a statement issued today by Captain Albert A. Henry, formerly attached at-tached to the office of the third assistant assist-ant secretary of war. The statement replied re-plied to charges by Major Dick B. Foster, Fos-ter, former supervisor of welfare work at Camp Funston, that Secretary Baker '"intentionally or unintentionally" had aided tho 1, W. TV. and other antiwar organizations. "The charge that the secretary of war ordered leui.mcy for objectors to military service or aided pacifist organizations in their program of blocking the construction construc-tion of oar armv is exactly contrary to the facts. Captain Henry said. ."Commanding officers at the camps were instructed that any man who declared de-clared himself to be a conscientious objector ob-jector would be assigned to non-combatant service, but that . if he refused both combatant and non-combatant service ser-vice he should be held- for examination by a board of inquiry. Men who appeared ap-peared before this board and were adjudged ad-judged insincere were tried by court martial :i.nd every one convict-ed is now serving his sentence at Fort Leavenworth. Leaven-worth. "At some of the camps objectors were given no opportunity to accept non-combatant non-combatant service, were not held for the board of inquiry, but were imprisoned with other prisoners, who, of course,, abused them without restraint. "From Camn Funston came the most serious charges of abuse. The reports were so numerous that the inspector-general inspector-general of the army ordered an investigation, investi-gation, which resulted in the discharge of two or three officers who failed properly prop-erly to report treatment of objectors." . General Leonard Wood, commander of' the central department of the army, formerly for-merly in .command at Camp Funston. refused re-fused tonight to discuss Major Foster's charges, but declared he was one of the best officers in the cantonment. |