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FAMOUS WAR TALE

STORY OF ITS ORIGIN. New York, October 20. “The story of Germany boiling down the bodies of her dead soldiers during the war to utilise the fats for fertiliser was started as a bit of British propaganda in China,” said Brigadier-General J. V. Charteris (who during the war was chief of a Brijish Intelligence unit), when he revealed the origin of the tale for the first time in a talk to the National Arts Club. “When England was worried over (fie seeming progermnn proclivities in China,” said the General, “I concocted the dea of switching the lilies of Iwo pictures taken from dead German soldiers. One bore the caption ‘Cavadver,’ and showed a train of dead horses being taken to fertiliser factories. The other was one depicting dead German soldiers being taken to the rear for burial.” Labelling the dead soldiers with caption ‘Cadaver,’ General Charteris said, lie seal it to Chinese newspapers, and then forgot about if. However, the story swept over the Continent, arousing England so that eventually it was the subject of a debate in "the House of Confmons.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2952, 22 October 1925, Page 2

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FAMOUS WAR TALE Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2952, 22 October 1925, Page 2

FAMOUS WAR TALE Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2952, 22 October 1925, Page 2

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