MANY DIVORCES.
BERLIN'S BAD RECORD. . • ' " LONDON, May 10.' , The Berh'n > correspondent? of ■ the- ' Daily Chronicle" says that ordinarilyi are' inclined to. at the lajge number of divorces; grants ed in but this is chiefly because German caees are not re- * ported in the Press. / Germany is now': bidding < fair to outdo the United Sttrtes in the; direction of rapid and wholesale divorce. Last week the Berlin Coilrt granted 176 decrees, at the rate of. one every fif--teen minutes. They, . were .mostlycases arising out of war. marriages^the' majority being on the. petition. The chief grounds, were. 7 simply, incompatibility of tepiper. • : ; .
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18070, 12 May 1924, Page 10
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