Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-05-11
GERMANS SHIP DEAD
TO OIL REF|NER|ES
Bodies Sent From Front to Fac.
tory, Where Fertilizers Are
Made From Fats.
Cable to the New York Sun.

Cable to the New York Sun
London-That the Germans are sys-
tematically collecting the corpses OF
their dead and shipping them to rem
dering plants where they are subjected
TO a process for recovering the oils
and fats for use as fertilizers. seems
inccntestably borne out by the latest
Information.
When such stories We're first pub
lished they We're generally disbelievcd.
American consulS formerly in Germany
who arrived here after their recall said
the Germans We're distiling ni;roslyce-
rire from the corpses and so obtaining
the essentials of explosives.
Boast of Efficiency.
1t now develops that the German
censors are allowing the German pa
perS to print accounts of and even To
boast about the efficiency which AL
lows nothing to be wasted. The Belgian
news paper, Independence Belso. OF
April 10 prints an account of the in
dustry in which it says:
W. have long known that the Ger
mans stripped their dead behind The
firing line. fastened them inlo bundles
of three or four bodies with iron wire
and h dispatched these undi to
the rear. Unit recently Trains laGen
with the deaG We're sent to 4 town near
I.iege and II point near brussels. Mach
surprise Was caused by the fact that
of late this traffic has proceeded in
The direction of Gerolstein. and that
ON each WACO was written ID. n. y. G.
German science is responsible for
the icea of the formation of the
Deutschc .Abfails Nerwe1iunGsgesell-
sehatf. or German Oflal Utilization
c~onirany, Limited. Il dividend corning
company with a capital of 1000. The
L chief f..,t },lS enn, Nv tr,f oil 4 D00
yards from thc railway connecting ST.
With. near the Belgian frontier. with
Gerolatcin. in the lonely and little fire.
uuented lIifel district southwes, of
tob!entz.
Guarded BY Live Wires.
The factory deals especially with
the dead from the western front. If the
results are as good as the company
hopes. another will be established ON
the casters front. Tho factory is in
visible from the railway and is deep in
the forest ountIy Electrically
charged wires surround it. \. special
double track leads To il. The works
are ahou; 200 feet long. 10 feet broad
and the railway runs completely around
them.
The rains arrive full of bodies
which are unloaded by worker who
live ct the works. The men wear OIL
skim overalis and masks W ! mica eye
pieces and are equipped with long
hooked poles. They push tie bundles
OF bodies to an endless chain which
PICKS them VI, hg means Of hooks Il: i'm
~te:Nals of two feet. Tho bodies are
transported IN an endless chain into
Il inns. narrow compartment. where
the} !;ass Through a bath which disin-
fectS them. They 30 through 4 drying
cllaIr,"cl and are automatically carried
to Il Great cauldron INTO which they are
dropped by an apparatus which de-
tac'les them from the chain.
The remain six to eight hours in
the caulaion. where they arc treated
by steam. which breaks them up while
they are slowly stiried by machinery.
The fats arc broken into stearine, IL
form of tal!ow ard oils which require
to he redistilled before they can be
used. Distillation is carried out by
boiling the OF, With hon of soda
ard some part of the !c%yproducts re-
sulting is used by the soap makers.
The refined oil is sent out in small
casks like those used for petroleum and
is yellowish brown.
Refuse Goes Into Sewer.
The fumes are exhausted from the
building by electric fans and are sucked
through, a great pipe to Inc northeast.
Urn corner, where they are condensed
:lnd tho refuse resulting is discharged
into a sewer. There is no high CHM
ney, as the boiler furnaces are supplied
with air by electric fans.
There is a laboratory, and in charge
oe the works is a chief chemist with
two assistants and Is men. All the en-
ployes are soldiers attached to the
Eighth Army corps. There is a ana
toriu,n near the works, and under no
pretext is any man permitted to leave.
They are guarded as prisoners at this
appalling work.
The London Times reproduced the
foregoing account Monday. but it was
SO horrible that is seemed unbelievable.
The Times today presents evidence to
prove it's truth. printing Photographic
facsimiles of u news article in the Ber-
lin Lolalanzeiger of April 70 which re-
ferred to the corpse exploitation es-
t~ablishment kadaververwertungsan-
stall.) 1t says:
The fats here are turned into lubri-
eating oils and everything else is
ground down in the mill, the bones into
powder, which is used for mixing with
pigs food and as anu Nothing can
be permitted to go to waste"
The case seems completely establish
ed by American. Belgian. Dutch and,
finally by German testimony. The Lon
don n Paris newspapers all accept
the story as true after careful investi-
cation and print editorials on it.
This Changing World.
From the Chicago News.