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Show ilT MB ' us mmw Mrs. Wilson Did Not See Evidences of Prison Brutality, Bru-tality, President Says.' WASHINGTON', July 2C President "Wilson, in a letter to Representative Dallingcr, Republican of Massachusetts, made public tonight, characterized as "entirely inaccurate" a recently pub- lished statement by John W. Kehoe, a hospital superintendent of the Knights of Columbus, that Mrs. Wilson obtained personal evidence .in Paris of brutal treatment of American military prisoners. pris-oners. A d i spa t c h from Xe w Y o rk q no t c d Mr. Kehoc as saying Mrs. "Wilson, while at base hospital No. 57, was beckoned to the cot of a soldier who displayed ' ' numerous welts on his arms and back," and that she reported this to the president with the result that "the entire guard staff were brought up on S charges and removed." ! In the correspondence with the president pres-ident given out by Mr. Dallingcr. the latter quoted from the newspaper ac-; ac-; count, and asked for additional infor-j infor-j mation so that he might "learn from 3 the war department the punishment meted out to those guilty." The president replied as follows: ,! "My Dear Mr. Daliinger. ! "The newspaper article lo which you 1 refer was entirely inaccurate. Mrs. ' Wilson saw no evidence of violence on -; the patient whom she met in base hos-; hos-; pital No. 57, and her inquiries brought ' out the fact that whereas one of the i prisons used by the American army in i Paris had been delivered over to them in a very bad condition, the conditions i had been rapidly corrected, and such i harsh treatment as had been practiced in one or two instances had been -i promptly checked. "Very sincere! v vours, "WOODROW WILSON." With the correspondence Mr. Dal-;'; Dal-;'; linger gave ut a statement to the cf-: cf-: ' feet that he could not reconcile the t president's favorable references to j prisons with the recent testimony of j General March, chief of staff of the . army, 1 ' showing conditions rivaling ! that of Siberian prison camps." |