The first English language account of a real and locatable ' appeared in the 16 April 1917 issue of "The Times" of London. In a short piece at the foot of its "Through German Eyes" review of the German press, it quoted from a recent issue of the German newspaper ' a very brief story by reporter Karl Rosner of only 59 words in length, which described the bad smell coming from a "" rendering factory, making no reference to the corpses being human. The following day, 17 April 1917, the story was repeated more prominently in editions of "The Times" and "The Daily Mail" (both owned by Lord Northcliffe at the time), "The Times" running it under the title "Germans and their Dead", in the context of a 500-plus word story which the editorial introduction stated came from the 10 April edition of the Belgian newspaper ' published in England, which in turn had received it from ', another Belgian newspaper published in Leyden, The Netherlands. The Belgian account stated specifically that the bodies were those of soldiers and interpreted the word "" as a reference to human corpses.