DESPAIR IN GERMANY.
News frcm Munich states that during one week there were, owing to the misery of starvation, 118 suicides, the majority of whom were women, in Germany. One mother, accompanied by three young children, shot herself before the gates of the Royal Palace of Munich, and in the presence of the sentries. A placard found pinned to her breast stated: "Your Majesty, fee a my children, I cannot." Parents are abandoning children in the parks in increasing numbers. The police have collected nearly 200 children in Rhine towns. The "Lokal Anzeiger" is indignant because 32 children were abandoned in Berlin on a recent Sunday. Thefts of food are becoming frequent. Reports of food riots from Berlin to Baele arrive almost daily.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 10 November 1916, Page 7
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123DESPAIR IN GERMANY. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 10 November 1916, Page 7
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