Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-04-25 | Page 20 | Dead Bodies Are Uncovered on Battlefield

DEAD BODES BODIES ARE 1 UNCOVERED ON i BATTLEFIELD SA Spoils of War Presents Problem to Health Authorities US P. PARIS April Apri Sc en 2 Seven months after the lire beginning of or the tire retreat of the tho Germans German says sas Dr Dolzy DolZ deputy for the department of tho the Ardennes unburied dead ore are being discovered on tho the battlefield of the tho lame Marne In Iii the j I center of oC on the tire banks of oC the Manna Marne arne where the tho sanitary department I Iwas was clearing awa away tho the debris the they brought to light a n hod bo body that was beyond be- be i yond Identification either as German Germanor or French i Hundreds If not thousands of bOll bodies 8 arc aro ar supposed to be lying Iring more or less less I submerged el m n the tire Saint Good Gond marshes marshes' where the Prussian guard was thrown I back hack the they hey had neither the time lime nor northe northe the means to M e those thoe who fell Cel thereIn there thereIn I In order to avoid th the pestilential effects ef d- ef- ef of warm weather welther on 01 the these un unburied unburied unburied un- un 1 buried corpses Dr Dolzy thinks it will willbe willbe wi be necessary to explore the tire entire I swampy swamp region with wih the aid of do dogs s Bodies arc are also being found constantly constantly con con- under brush In ditches and anti abandoned trenches They mire are found fount not trot oni only In ditches diches tr trenches and excavations I mado made b by shells sheila but In wells wels springs and nd all al the Die little streams of the region In man many places where It was wa possible for them to bury th their lr dead the they were Insufficiently covered with earth and were ere frequently burled buried in too ott tol close cose proximity to sources of or water t supply The These e conditions exist over a zone miles mies lon long and from ten to forty miles mies wide with a total of or from 1000 to lo square mie miles of ground a considerable consid erable enable part of which requires rc thorough to prevent the tire outbreak of or epidemics Besides the tho bodies hollies of men there were In this zone thousands of bodies of oC animals animal part of or them killed h by shell and man many mans of them lead dead from starvation star aton having been abandoned h by the fleeing population The vast work of Is well wel und under T way All Al the debris from bombarded bom born barded buildings s Is 11 being cleared away and the ground saturated with a Ii solution sour sour- ion tion ton of or lime The floors of ever every building build build- lug ing that has been ben occupied b by troops I either cither German or French ore being scraped then thena washed a her In a solution of of hot water and arid carbonate of soda soon while the tIre walls are arc all al newl newly whitewashed Wherever any odor remains after these precautions are arc taken more drastic measures are resorted to In some aDore cases the tire building Is burned I All Al yards and amI gardens around buildIngs build build- huld- huld Ings that t ha have vc sheltered troops are sprinkled with wih chloride of lime All Al wells an and springs are arc thoroughly cleaned and the use of the water prohibited until analysis shows show It to be b ab absolutely un unpolluted 01 u t ed The Tire authorities have also to solve the tire serious problem Of or sheltering the population lation hatlon laton that Is gradually returning to tire the devastated regions At a R town of Inhabitants that was almost completely com corn destroyed have already re returned returned ro- ro turned and are living mostly In the cellars of demolished houses house and ard under conditions that con constitute a to health almost as serious as the presence of or or Insufficiently burled dear deal bodies I