Show STORIES exaggerated chicago man gives results of personal investigation of atrocities washington tales of mistreatment of red cross nurses on european battlefields tle fields are grossly exaggerated recording according to george F porter of chicago achl now in london who wrote aba american red cross hero under date of september 17 of his personal investigation ti of reports he had heard atrocities are enormously ex agger abed the letter states tuesday night I 1 was told by an amerian Aro erlan woman of forty belgian red gross cross nurses in a london private hospital with the thumb and first two tino lingers of each hand cut off of OC course I 1 wanted to get at the bottom of this for you with consider considerable ablo difficulty 1 I obtained the name of the supposed private hospital in llam ham mon mansmith smith went there and found it a private house belonging to a woman who was much interested in rel bellet let work and had given her house for nursing preparing garments et etc c she would not see me but I 1 finally got at aa admission from a responsible person whom I 1 knew that the whole story was hearsay and with no found foundation aaion they did tell me however of a belgian nurse at the st thomas hospital here with the tendons of her wrists cut I 1 went there immediately saw the secretary of the hospital a and ad found that there was a nurse there but that instead of the tendons of her wrists being cut she had burned her wrists badly by the explosion of a spirit lamp on which she baj was making tea |