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Show Equipment Wantonly Destroyed. WASHINGTON. Juno 20. Stories of wanton destruction of clothing and other army equipment, both old and new, were recited today to the house committee investigating in-vestigating wartime expenditures of the war department by three members .of Ij company, twenty-third engineers. Their testimony w'as largely along the line of that given yesterday by Sergeant C. B. Malcolm, in opening the inquiry. The witnesses, Corporal Charles "W. Seymour of Chicago and Privates Thomas C. Johnson, Ontario, Ore., and W. T. Gardner, Portland, Ore., were members mem-bers of Malcolm's squad, in charge of German prisoners working on a road between be-tween Souilly and Ippocourt, France, last March. |