| Show VICTIM OF GERMAN irvin 8 cobb writes of work of beast of berlin as he saw it in london hospital in a london hospital I 1 saw a little g girl rl who had been most terribly maimed in an air raid I 1 nm am not going to dwell on the state of this child when I 1 think of her I 1 have not the words to express the feelings that I 1 have but one of her hands was gone gona at the wrist ced n nd the other hand band was badly shattered so she was just a wan little brutally abbreviated fragment of humanity a living fraction most grievously afflicted her wounds had ceased to maln her the head nurse told me before we entered and for the rest of tile time she was a good patient one of the best in the ward she was lying when I 1 saw her with her head propped upon a pillow that was no whiter than her face was and there was a pitiful wraith of a smile on en her poor little pinched commonplace face and to her breast branst with the bandaged stump of one arm and with her remal remaining nIng hand blind that was swathed swat lied in a clump of wrapping she cuddled up a painted china doll which somebody had brought to her and she was singing to it the sight I 1 take it would have been very gracious in the eyes of his imperial majesty of prussia except of course that the little girl still lived that naturally would be a drawback to his complete enjoyment of the spectacle irvin S cobb in the saturday evening post j |
