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Show AMERICANS TELL OF BRUTALITIES New York. Sept. 27. Tales of Ger-i man cruelty told them by the wound ed Belgian and French soldiers they I attended in the hospital were brought to New York today by Mrs W. P. T. Holllngsworth and her four daugh- ters, the Misses Jacqueline, Haze;., Iladys and Bessie The Hollingwworths have resided in I France for the last fourteen years Mr Hollingsworth being the representative repre-sentative there of the Westinghous.'.-Electric Westinghous.'.-Electric company. When war broke out, they left their chateau and went to a hotel in Houlapet The hotel! was later converted into a hospital and the Holllngsworths olunteered as nurses "Before the wounded were brought in we all made clothes for the fam iIIps of Belgians who had been driven from their homes," said Mrs Hol-lingBWOrtb, Hol-lingBWOrtb, "and while we are staylnc with friends in New Canaan, Conn we are goinc to try to get clothing to forward to Europe for the same purposes We saw ouraelvrq dum dum bullets that were extracted from wounded Belgians, and eight men died from lockjaw, caused, the sur geons said, from these fearful and cruel bullets. Many of the wounded told us that German surgeons had severed the tendons in their wrists as they lay helpless on the grouno and thereby deprived them for life of the use of their hands "Others told us that the Germans burned all the badly wounded men with the dead after the battles, and corroborated the story told early In the war that women and children had been driven ahead of the Germans who advanced over a bridge whicn was being held by the allies at Char leroi." . rr. . |