Show NO BASKET CASKS vf IN ARMY surgeon general ireland ot of the army lias has given emphatic denial to be le widely circulated story that there are ba basket cases in the army hospitals A basht case is a soldier who has hobt both legs and both arms and therefore cannot be carried in a stretcher 1 I have personally examined the records said general ireland and jm am able to say that there is not a single basket case on this side ot of the water or among the soldiers ot of the A 13 F further I 1 wish to emphasize that the there le has been no instance of an ail american soldier so wounded during the war the rumor of 0 such cases has been widely circulated whether maliciously or not |