Upon learning that the Military Command Headquarters had no morgue, the customs officials brazenly placed the coffins directly beside the entrance of the Headquarters, claiming they were "sent by Colonel Field," and then they strode off.
The personnel at the Military Command Headquarters were thoroughly disgusted, and I mean that quite literally. When the coffins were opened, many officers vomited on the spot, and the coffins were hastily nailed shut again.
Even with the coffins closed, it only reduced the stench from vomit-inducing to merely sickening.
Now, these four corpses had become a problem for the Military Command Headquarters; there was no place to store them, and they didn't have the courage to dump the four coffins at the doorstep of the Army General Headquarters.
