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Show STORIES EXAGGERATED. Chicago Man Gives Results of Personal Per-sonal Investigation of "Atrocities." Washington. Tales of mistreatment of Red Cross nurses on European battlefields bat-tlefields are grossly exaggerated, according ac-cording to George F. Porter of Chicago, Chi-cago, now in London, who wrote the American Red Cross here under date of September 17 of his personal investigation inves-tigation of reports he had heard. "Atrocities are enormously exaggerated," exagger-ated," the letter states. "Tuesday night I was told by an Amerian woman wo-man of forty Belgian Red Cross nurses in a London private hospital with the thumb and first two fingers of each hand cut off. Of course I wanted to get at the bottom of this for you. With considerable difficulty I obtained the name of the supposed private hospital in Ham-monsmith, Ham-monsmith, went there and found it a private house belonging to a woman who was much interested in relief work and had given her house for nursing, preparing garments, etc. She would not see me, but I finally got an admission from a responsible person whom I knew that the whole story was hearsay and with no foundation. "They did tell me, however, of a Belgian nurse at the St. Thomas hospital hos-pital here with the tendons of her wrists cut. I went there immediately, saw the secretary of the hospital and found that there was a nurse there, but that instead of the tendons of her wrists being cut, she had burned her wrists badly by the explosion of spirit lamp on which she was malting tea." |