GERMAN IMMORALITY.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 July 1918, Page 4

GERMAN IMMORALITY.

In the Main Committee of the Reichstag, says the Cologne Gazette, the deputy Struck said: “The flood of crime (in Germany) is constantly rising. What can we say when we find children of 12 and 14 charged ■ with offences against decency?” He might have added that recently in Berlin a child of 13 was tried for strangling a child of 11. Family ties are relaxing, and the Kreuzzeitung lately wrote: “In four months 700 divorce cases came before the Berlin court alone. The evidence revealed an appalling: condition of things. What a light is thrown by these few indications upon the moral condition of the German people!”