GERMANY.
A WAVE OF CRIME. i due to lack of food. Now York, July 20. The JTitffiifi Correspondent of tllP I,llitcd Press states Unit a wave of ehastly crime and suicide is sweeping over Germany. It is due to tin* mental depression caused by lack of proper food and (lie losses mused hi the war. There ha' been a sensational suicide or murder in lierlin every otlier day for i'lie past two weeks. Two killed another in a manicure parlour. They beheaded her with a razor, packed her body in a trunk and sent it to another city. There have been many nimilar gruesome crimes. Practically nothing is published in Germany about the suicides so as to avoid the depressing psychological eli'ect. Till' PKAOTC CAMPAIGNS. ■ Znrii'h, July 20. The majority of leading German newspapers now support Hcrr von Betliman Hollweg's anti-annexation policy. The Miiniehner Post declares that the lives of the Fatherland's defenders must not be sacrificed for annexnlion schemes which camiqt be carried out. BRITISH PKISOXI-RS IiEBF.L. Received July 21, ».ii p.m. Amsterdam, July 20. The Frankfurter Zeitun;; states that British prisoners participated- in a riot at an unnamed camp. The ynaidss fired, killing two.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1916, Page 5
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