WARTIME STORIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19445, 3 November 1925, Page 7

WARTIME STORIES

CORPSE FACTORIES DENTED. A SHAMEFUL LIE. LONDON, Nov. 1. Dr. Stresemann, in a letter to the newspaper “Weekly Despatch,” says that Germany created wartime establishments to utilise the careases of animals for industrial purposes. The allegations that the establishments were intended for the utilisation of soldiers' corpses was officially repudiated as a shameful lie, which Germans, mourning the loss of many sons on the battlefield, regarded as one of the most cruel and poisonous forgeries of the war penned. “THE OLD CONTEMPTIBLES.” ANOTHER DENTAL. LONDON, Nov. 1. Mr A. A. Ponsonby, M.P., in a letter to the current issue of the “Nation,” alleges that he has proved, with the assistance of an ex-German general, that the Kaiser’s famous phase “Contemptible Little Army,” as applied to the British forces, was merely another fabrication. The general unsuccessfully ransacked the official files and also wrote to tho Kaiser, who replied that he had never delivered such a speech. On the contrary, he continually emphasised the high value of the British Army and repeatedly warned his staff against under-estimation.