ABSENCE OF SERIOUS CRIMES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 212, 22 May 1915, Page 3

ABSENCE OF SERIOUS CRIMES.

The astounding decrease in crime ?.*>■ Paris since the outbreak of tfto'war is attributed by M. Alfred Capus, not z~z the war itself, but to the atmosphere oof military discipline which Joins tsibued all citizens since the begnvoisg of military discipline which has Unsays, "not more than two or Ihreo really criminal acts in the laer, five months . . . even the Paris apaebes have acted with moderation." I do not think, personally, that tbis can bs attributed to the Avar alone, for % remember a conversation I had wit-S a well-known Paris lawyer at the bi> ginning of tbe struggle, when he Sts£ pressed his opinion that in Paris in the void caused by the mobilisation.; must be feared the growth of a reati of young hooligans, of from fourteen to sixteen years, who would constitute one of the gravest dangers of the &stus> tion.