WAR OFFICE SILENT
GERMAN CORPSE FACTORY
STORY,
(UNITED FKISSS ASSOCIATION—COPXRIQHT.) (AUSTIUIUN.NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 23rd October. A controversy lias arisen concerning the reported speech in New York, in which Brigadier-General . C'harteris is alleged to have declared Unit the wartime story of the Gernuin corpse factory, in which bodies were boiled down for munitions and (ids, was an invention for propaganda purposes. A War Office official declined to comment, saying.: "General Charteris may have- been wrongly reported, or speaking facetiously."
An oflicial of the Intelligence Depart, incut during tho war said hu had seen tho diary of a German soldier in which there was an allusion to the subject. "It will be remembered," ho said, "that doubt arose whether the German word Tor corpse referred to human beings as well as animals."
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 100, 24 October 1925, Page 7
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132WAR OFFICE SILENT Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 100, 24 October 1925, Page 7
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