Feng Guozhang
By 1917 the British and their allies were hoping to bring China into the war against Germany. On 26 February 1917 the English-language "North-China Daily News" published a story that the Chinese President Feng Guozhang had been horrified by Admiral Paul von Hintze's attempts to impress him when the "Admiral triumphantly stated that they were extracting glycerine out of dead soldiers!". The story was picked up by other papers.