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Show General Harts Deaiss ' Charges of Cruelly j WASHINGTON. Apr:! 12. Continuing Continu-ing his defense of his administration I i of the Pars district . Brig. Gen. Harts! Hold a house investigating committee (today that charges of cruelty at the I I military prisons might have been exaggerated ex-aggerated by men "endeavoring to exculpate ex-culpate themselves." Prisoners were never satisfied and always distorted I tho truth he said. Questioned by John Johnson iOf South Dakota, concerning the rc-ported rc-ported sale of "rights in the Paris , subway," to Frenchmen by a Sergeant , Bender Gen. Harts said ho investigat-, investigat-, ed the report. Bender, he said denied de-nied a sale of one bridge over the Seine river but admitted that "certain .rights to the subway had been sold because it was necessary to raise money." |