The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-06-02
THE HUNS AND THEIR DEAD
A Gruesome Story of German Barbar-
ity That Discounts That of the In
dian and All Others Classified as
Uncivilized, Hence Without Moral
Responsibility.-Told by a Leading
London Paper, The Daily Mail.

A copy of the Daily Mail, of Lon
don. a leading paper in that great
city, has been sent to a Pleasantville
resident, because of it's having a state
ment of horrible abuses practiced by
the Germans upon their dead on the
battle fields of Frustrated Europe.
The Mail being a responsible pa
per. leads the Press to publish the ar
ticle in the cause of humanity and the
great need of a change for the better
ment of the world. The story reads:
We published yesterday the state
ment made by Herr Karl Kosher, spe-
cial correspondent of the Berlin Local
Advertiser (Lokal-Anzeiger), with the
German armies in the west, that north
of Rheims a German factory exists
for converting corpses" into oil. fer
tilizer and pig fodder. That corrobo-
rates a very remarkable account of
this new and horrible German indus
try which appeared in the Independ-
ance Beige for April 10 as extracted
from La Belgique, of Leyden lin Hol-
land). The statement. emitting some
of the most repulsive details, is as
follows:
We have known for long that the
Germans stripped their dead behind
the firing line, fastened them into
bundles of three or four bodies with
iron wire, and then dispatched these
grizzly bundles to the rear. Until re-
Gently the trains laden with the dead
were sent to Seraing, neal Liege, and
a point north of Brussels where were
refuse consumers. Much surprise has
been caused by the fact that of late
the traffic has proceeded in the direc-
ton of Gerolstein, and it was noted
that on each wagon was written I'D.
A. V. G."
DIVIDENDS FROM THE DEAD.
German science is responsible for
the ghoulish idea of the formation of
the German Ofal-Conversion Com
pany, Ltd. cd. A. V. Co." or "Deut-
sche Abfall-V erwertungG esellschaft')
a dividend-earning company with a
capital of e250,000, the chief factory
Of which has been constructed 1000
yards from the railway connecting St.
With, near the Belgian frontier, with
Gerolstein, in the lonely, little-fre-
quented Eifel district, southwest of
Coblentz. This factory deals specially
with the dead from the west front. If
the results are as good as the COM
pany hopes, another will be establish
ed to deal with corpses on the east
front.
The factory is invisible from the
railway. 1t is placed deep in forest
country, with a specially thick growth
of trees about it. Live wires sur
round it. A special double track leads
to it. The works are about 700 feet
long and 10 feet broad, and the rail-
way runs completely around them. In
the northwest r of the works the
discharge of the trains takes place.
THE ENDLESS CHAIN.
The trains arrive full of bare bod
les. which are unloaded by the work
ers, who live at the works. The men
wear oilskin overalls and masks with
mica eyepieces. They are equipped
with long hooked poles and push the
bundles of bodies to an endless chain
which picks them up with big hooks,
attached at intervals of two feet. The
bodies are transported on this endless
chain into a long, narrow compart-
ment where they pass through a
scalding bath which disinfects them.
They then go through a drying cham
Der, and finally are automatically car
ried into a digester of great c~auldron,
in which they are dropped by an APP
paratus which detaches them from the
chain. In the digester they remain
from six to eight hours, and are treat
ed by steam, which breaks them up,
while they are slowly stirred by ma
chinery. The bones sink to the bot
tom, leaving a thick dark-colored Ii
quid.
From this treatment result several
products. The fats are broken up