GHASTLY REVELATIONS

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13463, 18 April 1917, Page 5

GHASTLY REVELATIONS

TREATMENT OF GERMAN DEAD. (United Service.) Reeieved April 18, 9 a.m. LONDON, April 17. The Belgian newspaper Independence Beige, which is now published in London states that a factory has been established in a thick forest at St. Vitli, near the Belgian frontier, by a German official recovery company, which has a dividend-earning capital of £250,000. Trainloads of naked corpses from the west front arrive daily at the factory. Workmen, wearing oils'kins and masks, and armeJ with long hooked poles push the corpses to an endless chain, which picks them up with big hooks. The chain carries the bodies into a compartment, where they are disinfected, steamed and dried. Finally they are automatically detached from the chain and dropped into a great cauldron in which they are treated Insteam while being slowly stirred by machineiT. The process occupies eight hours, and its results are the production of stearine, tallow and oil. The latter is redistilled at a separate oil refinery. The refined oil, which is a yellowishbrown in colour, is packed in small casks like petroleum. Portion of the by-pro-ducts is sent to soap-makers. The factory is thoroughly scientific. It is fitted with the latest appliances, including electric machinery, and employs two chemists and eightly men, who are closely guarded, and are not allowed to leare the works. HONOuno Fun NEW ZEUANDERS FOUR MILITARY CROSSES GAINED. CAPT. HUBBARD DECORATED. (Australian and N.Z. and Reuter.) Received April iB, 1.45 a.m. LONDON, April 17. Military Crosses have been awarded to the following New Zealanders:— Captain A. C. Hubbard (Paeroa). Lieut. J. E. Mewett (Auckland). Lient. C. H. Senior (Auckland). Lieut. F. J. Stallard. One New Zealander was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and 13 the .Military Medal. Captain A. C. Hubbard, who has lice i awarded the Military Cross, is ve y well known in business and farming circles in the Waikato and Thames Ya.ley districts. He was chairman of the Thames Valley Dairy Company for the past ten years, and it was mainly due to his efforts and his popularity that that company enjoys the position it does to-day. He was also a director of the Waikato Bacon Company, and was on the Board of the c National Dairy Association. Captain Hubard went away with the Fourteenth Reinforcements, being O.C. the troopship Tahiti. After going through a short training in England he was appointed captain to the 16th Waikatos when that regiment was bereft of its command in the autumn of last year.