CORPSE FACTORIES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 109, 4 November 1925, Page 5

CORPSE FACTORIES

STORY IS "AS YOU WERE"

CHARTERIS DENIES INVENTION

ALLEGATIONS DESCRIBED AS

ABSURD.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPSRIOHT.)

(RfUTlß'g TELEQRAK.)

(Received 4th November, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, 3rd November

Brigadier-General Charteria emphatically denies the statements attributed to him in regard to the German corpse factory during his recent visit to America. He said the allegations that he invented the "Kadaver story," . altered the captions of a photograph, or used "faked" material for propaganda purposes were absurd. He says he explained- the' whole circumstances to the Secretary of State, who was perfectly satisfied.

Brigadier-General Charterie, while id New York, was reported to 1 have said the famous story that'the Germans during the war established "factories" in which the corpses of their dead were boiled down to obtain the fat for use in making munitions was invented by himself. The allegation was that he said he had obtained certain pictures of such works for dealing with animal carcasses, and by introducing the word "kadaver," which is the German, word for corpse; into the caption, had made the picture into propaganda injurious to Germany ._ He was then a high official in the British propaganda service. The altered pictures were, it was said, sent to the Far East, but the story returned to Europe, where it created a great sensation. When the American report was published, it at once aroused a storm of controversy, and awakened all the old discussion as to the probability or impossibility of the story being true; and such evidence as had been found on the matter was again related. The position created by General Charteris's denial is that the story reverts to its previous condition of being "not proven."