MONEY IN GERMAN CORPSES.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 18 April 1917, Page 7

MONEY IN GERMAN CORPSES.

GHOULISH UTILITY FACTORY FIRING LINE TO BOILING DOWN WORKS (Hoc. April 17, 11.20 p.m.) London, April 17. The newspaper "independence Beige"states that a Geriiiair offal- recovery, company, with a dividend-earning capital of a quarter of a million sterling, fias been 'established at St. Vith, near the Belgian frontier, in a thick forest. i Train loads of naked corpses from the ; West Front arrive daily at the factory. i The hands, wearing oilskins and masks,and armed with long, hooked poles, push the corpses on to an endless chain, ywhicli picks them up with big hooks. 'I'ho chain carries the bodies to a'compartment where disinfected,; steamed, and dried. , ■ "Finally they are automatically de- 1 tached from the chain and dropped into a great cauldron of steam,' being treated, while, being, slowly stirred- by ma* 1 chinery,. for eight lioi/fs nnder a process. .'" The results, include* stearine, tallow, and oil, the latter being iedistilled .sit a separate oil' refinery.:i:. Th' 9 refined oil is yellowish-brown'in colour,and packed in small cakes like petroleum. A portion of the by-products are sent to the soap-makers._ ; The .corpse facfory is thoroughly scientific, fitted with the latest appliances aud. electric machinery, and employs, ;tWchemists and eighty men,, whb are closely guarded,' and not allowed■ to leave tbc works."—United Servicer-':