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Show CHARGES MADE TO BE INVESTIGATED COL. DONALDSON AND "HARD. BOILED" SMITH APPEAR BEFORE BE-FORE COMMITTEE. Held Responsible for Condition! and Brutalities In U. 8. Army Camps In France. Committee Making An Investigation Now York. -Scores of Instances of brutul treatment of American soldiers lu tho prison camps of France, described de-scribed In some cases as amounting to n f.ystem of torture, responsibility for which wns placed by the witnesses on high army officers, were related heforo tho congressional subcommittee which Is investigating the disciplinary systems sys-tems of tho A. E. F. Tho committee, consisting of Iteprc-scntntlvo Iteprc-scntntlvo Itoynl C. Johnson, of South Dakota, nnd Bcprcscntattvo Oscar E. Blund of Indlnnn, met In the disciplinary disci-plinary barracks on .Governor's Island. Tho men "higher up" who were directly di-rectly charged by witnesses with responsibility re-sponsibility for tho prison conditions Included Brlgndlcr General W. W. Harts, former commander of tho Amer-lean Amer-lean troops In tho Paris district; Major General Frederick Smith Strong of tho Fortieth division; Colonel Edgar Grim-stead, Grim-stead, commander of the lfiSth Infantry, Infan-try, nnd Colonel J. S. Maul of tho field artillery. A number of cnptnlns nnd llcutcnnnts also were named ns having hav-ing taken an actlvo part lu the brutal treatment of prisoners. At tho close of the hearing Itepre-scntntlvo Itepre-scntntlvo Johnson nuuounccd that all cases In which charges were mado would bo placed heforo tho Inspector general of tho American army, and every effort made to bring tho guilty men to punishment. |