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EVENING' PUBLIC' IjEDQEXI PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY4 16, , 1919
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PARIS 'BRIG' HORfiOR
TOLD BY A. E. F.
Veterans Tell House Committee
j;, of "Hard-Boiled" Smith's
metnoas
MEN BEATEN AND ROBBED
h' Washington, July 10. Six American
young men nho lint gone to war to
-ihclp destroy autocracy and Its military
V brutalities yesterday told wb.nt hnp-
t pened to tfiem when'thry unluckily enmc
Binto contact -nith tlie pronost marshal
Jruard of the American expeditionary
1 force. It was a talc of horrors, oiler
i aa testimony in the continuation or n
! hearing before a House subcommittee
investigating War Department expen
J ditures,
High lights developed were thnt offi
I rers nnd a sort of gentlemen's agree -
iw me nt to deal mildly with those of their
l niimher nho ent Into trnlihle and fneed
court-martial trial; and that the "Wnr
J Department may not generally he dc
I 'pended upon to investigate fully in-
stances of brutality and injustice -where
enlisted men are victims, nor to punish
J severely In such cases 'where officers
J are offenders.
i r.Tust before the henring was resumed
J the War Department issued a stnte
I ment to the effect that the chief of staff
has ordered that hereafter the com
j innnding general of territorial depart
J'mehts v. Ill refrain from further exercise
J'of the power to order--execution of a
sentence of death or dismissal. Any
J record of trial Involving execution of
, such a sentence Is to be transmitted to
the President for his action.
!, "In view of changed conditions" the
commanding general of the American
S expeditionary force also -w ill refer such
cases to the President.
Witnesses, -who said they were vic-
! tlms of official hrutnlity. were Sidney
S "Kemp and Charles Ooldberg, of New
York city: Paul Hoggs, of Baldwin,
J.Jiong Island: Alvin Hates, of Ilrook-
Jyn : A. H. Mnndclberg. of llaltlmore,
! and Ocorge I. Pallitto, of Newark,
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"Hard Boiled" Smith Again
JwAll had gone through the provost
marshal mill in the Paris district. Gold-
1 berg nnd llo"gs lind been beaten. All
had been robbed. None was guilty of
serious breach of milltarj regulations.
Tfone was given a hearing with oppor-
tunitv to clear any possible misunder-
standing.
First Lieutenant "Hard Ilolled"
S Smith, (so far as brought qut in testi
i monv he had no other first name) was
cited as the eiil genius of the sjstem.
2 Charles Goldberg, formerly corporal
in Company O. 30Sth Infantr. brigaded
J with the British, was wounded in the
S head nt Arras and tnken to a hospital
,nt Rouen. When he roicovcreil he
started from Itonen to St. Aignnn, in
j'nris. He missed the train and five
minutes Inter was arrested and taken
J 'to Hotel St. Anne.
Ooldberg said: "When 1 refused to
surrender my belt nnd money, the guard
J hit me with his fist and knocked out
J a tooth. Ijumped nt him to fight back.
I Jle pulled a black jack and hit me over
until they were paralyrcd. ne got the
money belt.
"I was taken to a cell room. The
guards kept looking for trouble. If ft
prisoner sat down on the floor and
stretched out his legs so thnt the soles
of his shoes were not on the floor, the
guard would rap the victim on the bot
tom of the foot with a club. Another
form of entertainment in which the
guard Indulged was to 'part the hair
of a prisoner. That Is, he hit the
prisoner on the head with his club, cut
ting the scalp nnd drawing blood. Then
they gave some of the prisoners the
'Swedish' treatment.
Prisoner Grew Desperate
"I was put to work scrubbing a large
room. The guard stood oer me alter-,
natcly threatening nnd prodding me with
his club. I got so sick of it nil, so sick
of life, I snld 'to hell with the Ameri
can army. To hell with everything.'
"Before I was released nnd sent on
to the replacement camp, I got all my
money but a $10 bill, but they kept my
wntcii."
Hoggs, a corporal In Company C,
318th Field Signal Battalion, is a Co
lumbia University alumnus and In civil
life is n telephone engineer. His or
ganization had headquarters at Amiens
with the British. He was sent with a
detail down to Lc Mans and. finishing
the work there, started to return to
Amiens a Paris. He missed the
Amiens train nnd went at once to the
provost marshal office to explain the
sltuntlnn nnd keen nut of trouble. They
arrested him. In his testimony to his
experience at the farm he unid :
"We waded in mud slept on cobble
stones in the rain and were crowded
like cattle. Neeroes and whites, sick
and well, shared ermin-riddcii straw
ticks us long ns the ticks lasted.
Men Fought (Her Swill
"Men stnred at farm No. 2. We
quarreled over scraps of food. Some of
us dug into swill Darreis ior uui ui
greasj crusts nnd potato peelings, nnd
while doing It we were stoned by the
guards.
"Every prisoner was supposed to re
ceive a bath. The men wmnlv stripped
off nnd the guards turned nn icy stream
of water on them from a ho'.e. Men
were beaten for falling to shave. They
are beaten for watching the assaults
upon other victims.
Then Boggs told of the suicide of n
Polish lad. "The guards constants
beat nnd kicked this poor fellow," Boggs
continued. "Finnllv, thej put him by
himself in n 'pup' tent. A little while
later, guards found him with his throat
cut from ear to car."
EX-KAISER TAKES DAY OFF
NITTI DEPLORA GLI
Nulla Deve Turbare le Buone
Relazloni con Gil Alloati, Spe-
cialmente con I'Amorica
rubltshcil nd nixtrlhutrd Under
rnnMiT no 341.
Authnrltrd by th net of October fl
1917. on Me at the rostoMee of Phila
delphia, Ta
By order of the Preeldent
A s iiuiu.fsov.
Postmaster General
Itomn, If! lugllo. II rresldente del
Conslgtio del Mlnlstrl, On. Nitti, nel
discorso che ha prcccduto 11 oto til
fiducia, rlccvendo l'npprova7ione til
tutta la Camera ha deplornto I recent!
nttncchl contro II Prcsidentc Wilson
ditendo che l'Amerlcn c' quella che ora
fornlsce l'ltnltn di quanto necessita per
la vita 0 che senza l'America l'csiBtcnza
dciritalln sarebbc In perlcolo.
"Noi hlsognn curinmo che nulla turbi
lo buone relazlone con gll Allentl,
specialmentc con l'Amerlcn" ha detto
T.On. Nitti.
Roma, lfi lugllo Ierl sera la Camera
del Deputatl, in seguito al discorso del
Prcsidentc del Consigllo del Mlnlstrl.
On Nottl, ha approvato con votl 2."
favorcvoll enntro 111 un ordlne del
giorno che implica llductn nl preente
govcrno
By the Associated Press
Roma, 14 luglio Disordini in con
seguenza dl sclopcrl al sono verlflcatl
oggl In varlc clttn' dell'Italla.
A I,ucora otto pcrsone sono rlmaste
ucclsc et trentn ferltc, Vlclno n Oc
nova due annrchlcl furono ucclsi durante
un conllltto con I carabinlerl.
II conditio con gli nnnrchicl c' ay-
venuto a Sestrl Ponente, a qunttro ml
glia da Ocnova. Durante II conflitto
furono nrrcstati quattro pericolosl
annrchlcl.
I,o sciopero genernle e' stato dichln-
rnto a Caltanissettn, In Sicilin. II
popclo ha marciato lungo le vie grl
dnndn: "Viva I soviet!" e for7ando I
nego7inntl dt vlveri c dl nltrl gencrl a
ridurre I prezz del f0 per cento.
IOn. Nitti hn, oggl, dichlaratn alia
Camera che II Govemo Itnllnno hn
preso ample mlsure per nssicurarc
l'ordlne pubbllco. In vista del mlnac
clnto sciopero gencrale nttravcrso II
parse.
Le truppe egli ha detto sono state
distribulte In tutte le clttn' c vlllaggl
e sono provvedute di provviste baste
voll per oltrc 4H ore, qualora doves
Kero restare tnglinte fuori dalla loro
base.
II Prcsidentc del Consigllo del Mln
Istri ha, Inoltrc, dichlarnto che In
Itnlin non vi c' rngione di sciopero
genernle. II govcrno non vuole spnrgl
mento di snngue e perclo' fara' del
tutto per prevenlre che do' nvvengn,
I,e linee telegrafichc c radio-telegra-fichc
sono state nsslcuratc In tutte lc
parti del Regno, anihe In caso di disordini.
Woodchopper of Amerongen For
sakes Business Because of Cold
Amerongen. July 10 (By A. P.)
The former German emperor refrained
jesterdny from sawing logs for the first
time in several months.' It is under
stood that he is suffering from n cold
The former empress has experienced n
recurrence of her heart affection. Both
the former emperor and his wife e
mnincd in their apartments yesterday.
Doctor Forstcr, the personal phvsi
clnn of the former emperor, was called
to the castle late Monday and remained
there all night. It is probable that the
recent bad weather is responsible for
J1C IIUI11U u uimft j.itn turn mi inv ",i I ... . iL T , ,,
the head. Then he beat me on the arins, the Illness of the Hohcnzollerns.
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PERSHING DEGORATES
BRITISH OFFICIALS
Will Spoak in Parliament To
morrow and Head Parade
on Saturday
Iondon. July in (By A. P.) Gen
eral Pershing, the American com-mander-ln-rhief,
who Is in London to
participate In the victor parade Snt
urdnj, went to the British AVnr Office
loday nnd presented Distinguished
Service Medals to n number of proiui
nent British governmental ofliters.
Those who received the mednls were
Viscount Mjlner, secretnrj for the
colonies j Colonel Winston Spencer
Chun hill, secretnry for war. Viscount
Peel : Baron Weir, director genernl of
aircraft production : Baron Inverforth
(Andrew AVelr), former minister of
munitions, nnd Felix Cassel, judge ad
vocate general.
Krnm the wnr office General Per
shing went to the Hotel Savoy, where
ho was a guest of the Atnerlcnn laiint h
con Club. l,nst night he was enter
tnlned at dinner by Ambnssndor nnd
Mrs Dnvls
Tomorrow General Pershing will tie
liver an important speech before mem
bers of the nrmy committees of both
houses of Parliament.
On Hnturdn.v lie will head n composite
regiment of II 100 Culled States troops,
vvhltli will lend the victory parnde
through London The allied troops will
nmrih In alphnbeticnl order as to nn
tions Aniericnns getting the plncc of
honor
SHIP EXt3L0Sj0NKILLS 12
Gas Causes Fatal Blast on British
Tanker at Cardiff
Cardiff. Wales. July 10 (By A P )
Twelve persons were killed in the
explosion on board the British tank
steamer Iloselenf here jesterdaj. The
explosion was caused by nn accumula
tion of gas.
The ship was undergoing repairs here
at the timer of the accident,
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