GERMANY'S MORAL CRISIS.
Infantile precocity Is among the more 'disquieting symptoms of -Germany's moral crisis. Recent papers reported an action for assault brought by a boy of eight against a schoolfellow of sixteen, which came before the special court of juveniles •at Totsdam. It arose out of a dispute on the football field, and the Judge had enough common-sense to pronounce against tho machinery of State being put into motion to settle I he squabbles of the playground. Later news includes a double murder by a girl of fourteen in East IPrussla. Her rlctims were a boy of two and a girl one year younger. One corpse was found in ■bed, and the other on a playground. 'Both had been strangled with a piece of string. The juvenile murderess confessed the crime, which she had committed out of sheer delight in taking- life.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 290, 4 December 1920, Page 19
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