Show THE WAR investigation witness says volunteers would not hustle and cook their food scorches arwood Dr Wood who caused unnecessary e es Suf suffering fiering medical supplies were short cuban soldiers wanted to build shelter for sick now new york nov 23 james arar achibald chi bald a newspaper man who was with the jerst regular infantry from california to santiago was the first witness before the war investigation commission today in reply to gen beavers Ue avers invitation to tell everything ho he could and to make any criticism ao considered likely to be useful to the commission mr archibald said his chief reason for volunteering to appear before the commission was because of the published statements that there were great hardships in cuba because of a lack of food 1 I wish to say he asserted that I 1 have had considerable experience campaigning pai gning with the troops in the west and there the regular soldiers have had much rougher experiences than they did in cuba there was plenty of food the inability of the volunteers to adapt themselves to circumstances was due to their own inexperience 4 it if they had known enough to hustle and cook the food that was t there here they might have less cause to complain there was a scarcity of medical supplies of surgeons and of nurses it appeared to me that dr wood caused considerable unnecessary suffering by his severe administration of his hospital near Sl boney Siboney lie ile refused to allow any one t to 0 visit athe ithe sick and when I 1 tried to find a wounded man of the first I 1 infantry lie refused to let me in he lie declined to allow cubans who had offered to build shelter tor for the to do so and when I 1 tried to reason with him hi M he said f 1 I am running this hospital to sult suit myself which I 1 suppose was proper I 1 mention the the only matter in which I 1 blan etho authorities |