The Robesonian., 1917-04-26
GERMANS HAVE CORPSE EX-
PLOITATION ESTABLISHMENT

Process for Recovering Oil and Fats
for Use as Fertilizers Revolving ,
Story Of Efficiency Run Mad-Fac-
by -LiYe Wires
ly collecting the corpses Of their dead
and shipping them to rendering
plants where they are subjected to
process for recovering the oil and
fats for use as fertilizers seems TO
be fact established by American,
Belgian, Dutch and finally bv Ger
man testimony. The London and
Paris newspapers accept the story
after careful investigation and print
editorials on it.
The Belgian newspaper L'Independ-
ence Beige of April 10 prints an ac-,
count of the industry. The London
Times Reproduced the Belgian papers
story, but it was so horrible that it
seemed unbelievable, even in Eng.
land.
From Berlin Paper
The Times later presented evidence
to prove it's truth, printing photo
graphs, facsimiles of a news article
in which the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger
of April 10, which referred to the
corpse exploitation establishments" !"
1t says:
1.-The fats here are turned into lu-
bricating oils and everything else is
ground down in the mill, the bones
into powder which is used for mixing
with pigs food and as manure. Moth
ing can be permitted to go to waste"
A dispatch from Rome, dated
April FL, printed in the Washington
Post of Sunday, says:
"Pope Benedict has been Mortified
and has expressed deep indignation
over the reports of Germany's system
of rendering fats and fertilizers from
the bodies Of soldier dead, according
to an article printed today by the
newspaper Informazione."
A cable dispatch to the New Yorl
Sunday from London says:
"That the Germans are systemati
cally collecting the corpses of thei
dead and shipping them to renderin!
plants where they are subjected to
process for recovering the oil an
fats for use as fertilizers seems in
. contestably borne out by the lates
information.
f'When such stories were first pub
lished they were generally disbelievet
American consulsformerly in Gel
many who arrived here after the
recall said the Gemans were distil
ing nitroglycerine from the corpse
and so obtaining the essentials of e2
plosives.
Boast of Efficiency
"It now develops that the Gerr1a
censors are allowing the German ps
pers to print accounts of and even
boast about the efficiency which a
lows nothing to be wasted"
Following is the account of tn
modern industry product ofGermany
boasted efficiency and "kultur", ;
printed in the Belgian newspaper
independence Beige, reported in tt
London Times and cabled to the Ne
York Sun:
eve have long known that the Ge
mans stripped their dead behind tt
firing lines, fastened them into bul
dies of three or four bodies with irt
wire and then dispatched these bu
dies to the-rear. Until recently trail
laden with the dead were sent to
town near Liege and point ne;
Brussels. Much surprise was caus'
by the fact that of late this traff
has proceeded in the direction of G
rolstein, and that on each wagon W;
written D. A. V. G.
German science is responsible f
the idea of the formation Of Il
Deutche Abfalls Verwertungsgese
schaft, or German Offal Utilizati'
Compay, Ltd, dividend earnir
company, with a capital Of $4,000
= The chief factory has been construc
3 ed 1000 yards from the railway CO
Meeting St.Vith near the Belgian fro
= tier, with Gerolste in the lone
and little frequenteo Eifel distri
southwest Of Coblentz.
Guared by Live Wires
"The factory deals especially WI
the dead from the western front.
the results are as good as the cor
pany hopes, another will be esta
lished on the eastern front. The ia
tory is invisible from the railway al
is deep in the forest country. Ele
trically charged wires surround 1T.
special double track leads to it. III
works are about 700 feet long, L
feet broad ard the railway runs cor
pletely around them.
"The trains arrive full Of bodi
which are unloaded by workers wi
live at the works. The men we
oilskin overalls and masks with mi
eyepieces and are equipped with lo1
hooked poles. They push the bundl
of bodies to an endless chain whi
picks them up by means of hooks
- intervals of two feet. The bodies a
= transported to an endless chain in
:, long, narrow compartment whe
they pass through bath which di
infects them. They go through a Or
ing chamber and are automatical
carried to a great cauldron into viii
they are dropped by an apparat
which detaches them from the cha
Employees Held Like Prisoners
"They remain six to eight hours
fha ca1ldron where they are treat