The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-10
GERMANS SHIP DEAD
TO OIL REFINER|ES
Bodies Sent From Front to Fac
tory, Where Fertilizers Are
Made From Fats.
Cable 10 the New York Sun

! L~on6on-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
incontestably borne out by the latest
information.
! When such stories We're first pub
lished they Were generally disDeiieved.
American consuls formerly in Germany
who arrived here after their recall said
the Germans We're distilling n~itroglyee-
rine from the corpses and SO obtaining
the essentials of explosives.
Boast of Efficiency.
1t now develops that the German
censors are allowing he German pa
pers to print accounts of and even to
boast about the efficiency which al
lows nothing to be wasted. The Belgian
newspaper, L'lndepeadence Beigo. OF
April 10 prints an ccoun of the IN
dustfy in which it SAYS:
"Wc have long known that the Ger
mans stripped their dead behind h
firms line, fastened them into bundles
of three or our bodies with iron wire
and then Dispatched these bundles to
the rear. Unit, recently trains laden
with the deaf were sent to q town near
Liege and a point near Brussels. Much
surprise WAS caused by the fact that
of late this traffic has proceeded in
the sdirectien Of Gefoisteir, and that
on each wagon was written ID. A. Y. G..
German science is responsible for
tho idea of the formation of the
Deutsche Abfails Verwertungsgesell-
schatf, en- German Offat Utilization
comIanS, Limited. & dividend earning
company with q capital of S24O.000. The
chleI factory has BEEN constructed 1,006
yards iF@in the railway connecting St.
With. near the Belgian frontier. with
GerolsteiN, in the lonely ard little fire.
amenities H tBiffal s3iGt yirf "a cntJfh xtrc "a
Gobientz.
Guarded BY Live Wires.
The factory deals especially with
he dead from the western front. # the
results are as good as the company
hopes. another will he established on
the eastern front. The factory is in
visible from the railway and is deep in
the forest country. Electrically
CHARGED wires surround it A special
double track leads to it. The works
are about 700 feet long. lilo feet broad
and The railway runs completely around
them.
The trrins arrive full of bodies
which ARE unloaaed by workers who
live ut the works. The men wear OIL
skin oveftlls and MASKS with mica eye
pieces ;anf! are equipped with long
hnokeA poles. They push the bundles
u bodies TO an endless chain which
picks them UP by means of hooks at in
tervals of two feet. The bodies are
transported on an ndles chain into,
2 long. marrow compartment, where
fheV pass through a bath which ,dTsin-
lects them. They go through a driving
Tcglalnber and are automatically carried
to a great cauldron into which they are
dropped BY an apparatus which de-
aches them from the chain.
They remain six to eight hours in
the cauldrof, where they are treated
by steam, which breaks them UP while
they are slowly stirred by machinery.
The fats are broker into stearine. a
form of tnllosw and oils which require
to he redistilled before they can be
used. Distillation is carried out by
boiling the oil with carbonate of soda
and some part of the ayproducts re-
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 aressslcked
through g great pipe to the northeast
ern r where they are condensed
II the refuse resulting is discharged
into a sewer Tner is no high Chin
ney, as the boiler furnaces are supplied
with air by electric fans.
Their is a laboratory, and inscaarge
OF the works is a chief chemist with
two assistants and IS men: All THE en-
plOSSS dIC s5OlGicIS- gbSt<1GAFu W I1o
Eighth Army corps. There is a. sana-
toriurn near the works andssnlnder no
pretext is any man per1pittesd.afo ,feave-
ere guarded as p~Bfs6nerSsak this
Appa1lirt- work.
The london Times reproduced the
foregoing account Monday, blu NiAswas !
50 horrible that Is seemed nnbelieyabfe.
Tho Times today presents seviQsnee to
prove it's truth, printing p~hotDgFaphic
aacsin,iles Of 9 news articls Il the Der
I'm -LOkaIanneiger of April f6sWhich re
ferred to the corpse exploitation es-
.abiislinaent Observation-Disclosures
statl.) It says: d
saFFi1e fats here are turned into fnbrf-
rating oils and everything. else is
ground down in the mill, the bones into
powder, which Is used forssmixing with
pigs food and as manure Nothing a
oe permitted to go to waste,
The case seems completely establish
I'd ~ American, Belgian. Dutch and
finally by German testimony. The Ion
don and Paris newspapers ait accept
The story as true after careful investi-
cation n print editorials pn ii.
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