GERMAN CHILD CRIMINALS.
The Berlin 'Local Advertiser'.- ('Lokal Anzeiger') states that statistics prove that the number of criminals under the age of 18 was four times greater in 1916 than in 1914, especially in" the category of theft and murder. Tho criminals arc mostly children whoso fathers are serving in the Army while their mothers work in munition factories. The paper asks that all fathers over 45 at the front shall be freed from military service so that Germany's increased criminality may possibly be checked. — Exchange.
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Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 67, 27 August 1917, Page 1
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86GERMAN CHILD CRIMINALS. Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 67, 27 August 1917, Page 1
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