Show STORIES EXAGGERATED EXAGGERATED Chicago Man Gives Results of Personal Per Investigation of Atrocities Washington Tales Tales of ot mistreatment of ot Red Cross nurses on European battlefields bat bat- are grossly exaggerated according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to George F F. Porter of ot Chicago Chi cago now In tn London who wrote the American Red Cross here under date of September 17 of his personal Investigation lives of ot reports he had heard beard Atrocities are enormously exaggerated exaggerated the letter states Tuesday night I was told by an Amerian woman wo woo wooman man of forty Belgian Red Cross I nurses In a London with the thumb a and d first firt- firt t two fingers lingers of ot eai hand handcut cut off Of course I wanted to get at the bottom of ot this for you With considerable difficulty difficult I obtained the name of the supposed private hospital in Ham Ham- went there and found it a private house belonging to a 11 woman iwho who was much Interested in relief work and had n her house for fol nursing preparing garments etc She would not see me me but I finally fInay got an admission from a responsible person whom I knew that the whole story was hearsay and with no foundation They did tell me however of or a Belgian Beglan nurse at the St. St Thomas hospital hospital hos has pital here with the tendons of ot her wrists cut I went there Immediately saw the secretary of ot the hospital and found that there was a nurse there but that Instead of the tendons of ot her wrists being cut cut she had bad burned her wrists badly by the explosion of a spirit lamp on which she fihe was making tea |