“CORPSE FACTORY”
ALLEGED WAR HORROR. WAS IT A FABRICATION? (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, October 23. (Received October 23, 9.45 pm.) A controversy has arisen concerning the reported speech in New York, in which Brigadier-General Charteris is alleged to have declared that the war-time story of the German corpse factory in which bodies were boiled down for munitions fats, was one invented for propaganda purposes. The War Office officially declined to comment, saying: “Brigadier-General Charteris may have been wrongly reported, or was speaking facetitously. An official of the Intelligence Department during the War, said he had the diary of a German soldier in which there was an allusion to the subject. It will be remembered that doubt arose whether the German work for corpse referred to human beings as well as animals.
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Southland Times, Issue 19690, 24 October 1925, Page 7
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