THE "MORAL GERMAN."

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 329, 3 November 1915, Page 8

THE "MORAL GERMAN."

SOME ILLUMINATING STATISTICS. We have to thank the rector of St. Augustine’s, Dumbarton, says the Scottish Chronicle, for an interesting sidelight. on the home life of our friends the enemy, He quotes from Doctor Thomas Smith, whose'book “The' Soul of Germany” (Hutchinson and Sons) gives some figures which go far to explain Louvain, Dinant, and many other tragedies of the present war. The following statistics show the average annual convictions for crimes recorded ‘in ten years in Great Britain and Germany. German population, 67,000,000; British population, 48,000,000. German. British Malicious and felonious wounding 17.2,153 1,262 Murder 350 97 Hape 9,381 216 Malicious damage to property 25,757 358 Illegitimate births 178,115 37.041 Divorce petitions 20,340 965 The above figures reduced to a common basis for ten millions of population give the following proportions; German. British Malicious and felonious wounding 25,694 263 Murder 51 20 Rape 1,400 40 Malicious damage to property 381 74 Illegitimate births .. 25,584 772 Divorce petitions 3,036 201 The British figures are from the Home Office publications, and the German figures from those of the Imperial ‘Statistics Office, Berlin; so they may jbe taken as final and conclusive.