DIVORCE’S RAPID SPREAD
FIVE THOUSAND IN A YEAR CONCERN FELT IN BRITAIN EFFECT OF MUZZLED PRESS By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian Press Association. Received Sept. 29, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 28. Divorce is rapidly increasing in England. Seven hundred cases await London judges alone when the opening of the court takes place next month. By December 2600 marriages will have been dissolved in London during 1929. This total will reach nearly 5000 when the rest of the country is taken into consideration. There are four times as many shattered romances than in 1914. One half of the dissolved marriages were childless. One of the primary causes is the Act preventing publicity in newspapers in regard to divorce cases. The “secret divorce” is how the Act is oft-times described, and in view of the alarming growth of divorce the question affecting the amendment of the Act is expected to be raised in the House of Commons.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1929, Page 9
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