CORPSE FACTORIES.
WIDESPREAD LOATHING. FEABS FOR ALLIED DEAD. ' (London, April 25. The wave of intense disgust and loathing is widespread over the revelations of tho German horrors—utilising the bodies of soldiers for conversion into fat?, oils, and pigs' food. Tho horrible news ■has stunned the British and French people, and has produced a gjeater moral effect than all the previous German brutalities and crimes. It is feared here that the Germans arc probably using the Allied dead for the same abominable purpose. It is suggested that aeroplanes should distribute_tlie news in Turkey and the East, with tlie object of effectively .disillusioning Mahometans, It is stated that there is a regular service of corpse trairs from the front to the interior of Germany. They run only at dead of iiight, and tho utmost secrecy is observed.
Commenting on the German corpse factory the Maharajah of Bikanir states: "We may be certain that the German authorities are not more considerate to the remains of fallen foes than to their own fighters. Therefore it is practically certain that the bodies of British and French soldiers have been removed from the field of battle by the Germans and undergone, like indignities, also that Indian warriors have been used in the same loathsome way. Nothing could exceed the sense of horror and detestation with which this latest crime of Germany against mankind is regarded in every part of India." As Australians only 011 one occasion yielded ground, it is unlikely that many, if any, met this fate.
"L'Homme Enehaine" says that tho existence of the German corpse factory is confirmed by tho evidence of the American Consul.
A wounded Kent sergeant says that when at the front German prisoners jestingly referred to the ccrpse factories. One said, "Even when we are dead our work is not done. We are wired together in batches, and boiled down in factories, making fat for munitions, feeding pigs and poultry." Prisoners called their margarine "corpse fat," suspecting its origin. 1
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1917, Page 3
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