Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1919 — WITNESS TELLS OF ARMY CAMP IMMORALITIES. [ARTICLE]

WITNESS TELLS OF ARMY CAMP IMMORALITIES.

London, Oct. 21.—Resuming her testimony® today before a house of lords committee which is. conducting an inquiry into her dismissal as commandant of the women’s royal air force, the Right Honorable Violet Douglas-Hennant, daughter of Baron Penrhyn, declared that the South Carlton camp in Lincolnshire, where Americans were stationed, was among those where immorality existed -- , The women’s royal air force huts, Miss Hennant declared, middle of the camp. The women here were surrounded by Americans. On one occasion, she added, the women’s huts were raided during the night, a drunken American officer climbing through a window arid “creating a terrible disturbance.” A former army officer, of Wheeling, W. Va., who had been placed in the “hard boiled” class by his men, received a telegram telling him to meet a certain train. When the train came in a discharged doughboy hopped off. “I’ve been waiting a year for this chance,” he exclaimed, as he proceeded to beat up theofficer. AfterihfliCtinghispunishment the soldier caught the train as it pulled out. ~