THAT GRUESOME STORY

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 8 June 1917, Page 1

THAT GRUESOME STORY

The Paris 'Journal* of March 16 had the following:— The technical paper, the ' Chemichen Zeitung/ published in its isstie of November 18, 1916, the following announcement.:—" Thermochemtche Vera Eckbolsheim, Strasbnrg.—On account of the departure of our manager. Ave require an engineer free from military obligations to direct,, technically and commerciallv, our factory for the destruction of dead bodies." The name of the factory leaves no donbt respecting the nature of the "work carrier Qijin this thermo-ehemical factory. Tt»at ijpco say, it is not solely destruction by r*it, but it also comprises the chemical tftatment and utilisation of the dead Ladies. statement made by the American who left Germany at the same time as 3lr Gerard, in the*' Lausanne f Jasette' on February 28, folly confirms this

opinion. The enemy are reduced to extremities in order to obtain explosives, which are more necessary for them at the present moment even than bread.