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ITS ORIGIN EXPLAINED.
PICTURE TITLES CHANGED.
A BIT OF PROPAGANDA. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION-COPYBIGHT. Received Oct. 21, 11.20 a.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 20. “The story of Germany boiling down bodies of her dead soldiers during the world war to utilise the fats for fertiliser was started as a bit of British propaganda in China,” said BrigadierGeneral J. V. Cliarteris (who during the war was Chief of the British Intelligence Unit and was the author of the story), when he revealed the origin of the tale for the first time in a talk to the National Arts Club. “When England was worried over the seeming proGcrman proclivities in China,” said the general, “I concocted the idea of switching the titles of two pictures taken from dead German soldiers. One bore the caption - ‘Cadaver,’ and showed a train of dead horses being taken to fertiliser factories. The other was one depicting dead German soldiers being taken to the rear for burial.” Labelling the dead soldiers with the caption, “Cadaver,” General Charteris said he sent it to the Chinese newspapers and then forgot about it. However the story swept over the Continent, arousing England so that eventually it was the subject of a debate in the House of Commons.—Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 October 1925, Page 7
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