Show if PERSHING WEEPS ON VISIT TO WOUNDED By Associated Press EW YORK March N NEW Tears rolled roiled down the cheeks of General Pershing while visiting the wounded officers and men aboard the hospital ship Mercy at Bordeaux Bordeaux Bor- Bor deaux February 27 according to the stories of the soldiers who arrived here on the ship from the French port General Pershing made two visits to the ship with his staff it was said on the day of embarkation embarkation em- em and on each occasion he passed through the lines of wounded men in the double tiers of cots on each side and praised and comforted them Once he stopped at the cot of a wounded marine who had lost a leg He shook the soldiers soldier's hand and in ina a tone of pride and sympathy declared You boys are wonderful II fighters I Later he came across a young soldier in the surgical ward who was badly crippled The general gen gen- oral eral with fatherly solicitude for his welfare remarked Boy you are a real man Then addressing the others in inthe in the war the tears came to his eyes and the old fighter who had won fame in the Indian uprisings the Spanish American war the Philippine insurrection and the great war extolled the valor of the the- new veterans Not Notting ing is too good for you he commented as he bade the boys goodbye |