MURDERS AND SUICIDES
■i rife in Germany! HIDEOUS CRIMES HUSHED DP. ■ Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 21. 10.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jufer *2O. A United Press Hague correspondent states that a ghastly crime and suicide ware is sweeping over Germany, due to mental depression caused by lack of proper food and losses in tho war. Thero has,been a sensational.suicide or murder in Berlin every other day for the past two weeks. Two girls killed another in a manicure parlour. They beheaded her with a'razor, packed tho body in a trunk and sent it to another city. There aro many similar gruesome crimes, but practically nothing is published in Germany regarding tho suicides, to avoid tho depression of tho psychological effect. *
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11756, 21 July 1916, Page 1
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