Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-07 | Page 2 | Officer Denies Cruelty Charge

OFFICER DENIES"7 GRUELTYGHAHGE No Bloodthirsty Police Swept ; Streets of Paris General Harts Says WASHINGTON, April 7. -Charges that "strong armed, blood thirsty police po-lice companies swept the streets of Paris, making- wholesale arrests of American soldiers," were denied before a house war Investigating committee com-mittee by Brigadier General William W. Harts, former commander of Amor-ican Amor-ican troops in the Paris district. General Harts, who was ordered home from Germany, where he Is chief of staff of the American forces, to to3-tify. to3-tify. nlso denied that his forces put arrested ar-rested soldier tlhrough "a third degree de-gree to obtain confessions of crime" or that they were "bealon, threatened and inhumanely treated." Representative Bland, Republican, Indiana, who questioned the witness read reports of specific cases in which! officors were said to havo assaulted1 soldiers and asked whether General Harts took action in these cases. j