Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-25
GERMAN 1HOaoUeHNEss.
tvicksburg Evening Post.)

-'O" thS SSfhhohct fOiio"iiIk tlIClT tTeIC
for inventiveness and conservation are
using their dead soldiers for the making
of fats, oils and chemicals The bones
are ground for fertilizer The dead, TAX.
en- from the battlefield, are stripped
bound in bundles with iron wire, and
shipped aboard railroad trains to reduc.
ing plants. -
Weird stories of the imagination, did
you say? No less an authority that the
conservative London Times vouches fol-
the facts.
Using some of the statements printed
in the Times, the conservative Louisville
Conrier-Journal also makes interesting
comments. The following article is from
the Courier-J Journal:
The Times now comes forward with
q more detailed story of the intensive
treatment Of the German soldier, to the
end that the empire may profit by using
him after he is killed az well as while he
lie alive. In substantiation German papers
are quoted, and the story as it now APP
pears seems as well authenticated as any
chronicle Of alleged facts could be. II
it still is incredible it is only because the
minds of many persons cannot adjust
themselves to the reception OF the story
that civilized people would treat the
corpses of gallant soldiers as a mere COM
modify to be employed as measure OF
national economy.
American consuls formerly in Ger
many are quoted by the Times as saying
that the Germans have been for some
time making nitroglycerine, and obtain
ing the essentials Of other explosives, from
the corpses of soldiers killed in battle.
The German censors now are permitting
their press to report the rendering Of the
corpses, as an example Of the high ef-
8ciency Of Germany, the Times says. Bel
gian newspapers have printed the news
that the trains laden with the bundles of
corpses are dispatched to Gerolstein, each
car labeled I'D. A. v. Co." meaning
"Deutschem Abfalls Verwerttungs &C.
sellchaft," which, translated, is "The
German Offal Utilization Company, Linn
ited." The factory is situated l 900 yards
from railroad which connects st. With,
near the Belgian frontier, With Gerolstein.
The cite Of the plant is in the little fire.
quented district Of Eifel, southwest OF
Coblentz.
1.-THE following account of the recep-
ton and treatment of bodies is given:
1.-THE factory deals especially with the
dead from the Western front. Ii the re-
sults are as good as the company hopes,
another will be established on the eastern
front.
THE trains arrive full of bodies which |
are unloaded by workers who live at the |
works. The men wear oil-skin overalls |
and masks with mica eye-pieces and are
equipped with long hooked poles. They
push the bundles of bodies to an endless
chain which picks them up by means of
hooks at intervals of two feet. The bodies
are transported on an endless chain into
. long, narrow compartment, where they
pass through a bath which disinfects
them. They 20 through drying cham
Der and are automatically carried to
great cauldron into which they are
dropped by an apparatus which detaches
them from the chain.
"They remain Elk to eight hours in the
cauldron, where they are treated by steam,
which breaks them up while they are
slowly stirred by machinery. The fats
broken into stearine, form of tallow
and oils which require to be redistilled
before the, can be used. Distillation lie
carried out by boiling the oil with car
Donate of soda and some part of the by
products resulting is used by the soap
makers. The refined oil is sent out i'm
small casks like those used for petroleum |
and lie yellowish brown. .
.sThe fumes are exhausted from the ,
buSdings by electric fans and are sucked :
through a great pipe to the northeastern
corner, where they are condensed and the I
refuse resulting is discharged into a sew I
er. There is no high chimney, as the I
boiler furnaces are supplied with air by 9
electric fans. !
"There is laboratory, and in charge 9
OF the works is a chief chemist with two !
assistants and seventy-eight men. All the 4
employees are soldiers attached to the {
Eighth Army Corps. There is sana- [
torium near the works, and under no r
pretext is any man permitted to leave. Q
They are guarded rs prisoners at this ap- /,
palling work" G
Photographed facsimiles of a news ar .
ticle in the Local Anzeiger refers to the p
corpse exploitation establishment" us +
ing the German term "kadaveryerwert- n
and says: n
The fats here are turned into lubri- u
eating dis and everything else is ground b
down in he mill, the bones into powder =
yhich is us,l for mixing with pigs food q
AMI as manu. Nothing can bfpermitted Il
toyo to waste. ;,
" is conce'S"'e that barbarians who q
couN commit s"el> trocities Ms the Ger y
manshave committt mon nom combat, 0
ants enemy count m;yh, h.lL ., g
,hs hohrs of rendering u