GERMAN DEAD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1700, 19 April 1917, Page 3

GERMAN DEAD.

(iiioridsii dktails: London, April IT. The newspaper Independanee [Seige slates lli;i! :t <!<‘i'!ii;ln offal recovery company, will) ;i dividend<■;iruinu’ <-:i)>it:il id' :i quarter id :i million sterling, !i;is been establisbed lit Si, Vith, nciir the Belgian frontier, iii :i thick forest. Tram lost (Is id' iiiikcd corpses from the West front arrive daily al the. laclory. The hands, wearing oilskins ami masks, and armed wiih long, honked poles, push the corpses on to an endless chain, which picks (hem up wilh lug hooks. The chain carries the bodies to a compartment where they are disinfected, steamed and dried. . “Finally they are automatically detached from the chain and dropped into a "real cauldron of steam, being treated, while being slowly stirred by machinery for eight hours under a process. The results include stearine, tallow, and oil, 'the latter iieiii” re-distilled at a separate oi! refinery. The relined oil is yellow-ish-brown in colour, and packed in small cakes like petroleum. A portion of the by-products are sent to the soap-makers. The corpse factory is thoroughly scientilie, lilted wilh the latest appliances, and electric machinery, and employs two chemists and eighty men, who are closely .guarded, and not. allowed to leave the works."