CRIME AND SUICIDE

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14144, 22 July 1916, Page 5

CRIME AND SUICIDE

WAVE SWEEPING OVER GER-

MANY.

FRUITS OF DEJECTION AND SHORTAGE OF FOOD.

(Australian andN.Z. Cable Association)

New York, July 20.

The Hague correspondent of the United Press states that a ghastly crime and suicide wave is sweepipng over Germany. It is due to mental depression, caused by lack of proper food and losses in the war.

There has been a sensational suicide and ißurder in Berlin every other day for the past two weeks. Two girls killed another in a manicure parlour. They beheaded the body with a razor and packed the body in a trunk and sent it to another city. There are many similarly gruesome crimes.

Practically nothing is published in Germany of the suicides, in order to avoid depression and the pysehological

effect.