GERMAN MORALS.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 October 1918, Page 2

GERMAN MORALS.

PEEP AT THI? FATHERLAND. S’rtrne. The local Synod of the Prussian Protestant State Church in the third ecclesiastical division of Berlin has drawn u pa report to the Central Synod to call the attention of the church to the great increase in the number of divorce cases now before the Berlin courts. At the end of June more than 10,000 divorce cases were pending before the different courts of Greater Berlin. A detailed investigation of the evidence given in some of the cases led the local synod jn question to the conclusion that “immorality among German women has attained such a degree that the very foundations of society are threatened.”