Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 25 | Increase of Crime in Germany Noted

INCREASE OF CRIME IN GERMANY NOTED , Attention Is Called Particnlarly to the Rapid Growth of Juvenile Criminality. SiITERDAM, Feb. C The German S'i? ' day of praypr and repenc-an.'--ad scred by several Gernun ';'?ioj speakers and wriler? !.r ex-!l.':r:z ex-!l.':r:z the euner-exelienee of German -'5 and "kultur." but the r;rin:n f'spapers of tiat cay were full c( com-a-n's about th srrowrh of Time In senfra! and of j-j'. eni'e criminajty in par-tivJlar par-tivJlar gince parental ronrroi had become re.axed owlnj to fat'r.TS being at the Tr and moLhers orkint; on "na'-lonaJ tervice." t Tne Gerrean "Centrale fur Ju?ndfuer-orze" Ju?ndfuer-orze" (Care of tne Youn.?'. hag pub-L'ed pub-L'ed a report ?:atir.c that offenses com-;y:t com-;y:t by youn? persons up to the. age 1. ran?;n? from pettv larceny to at-;W-f".ed murder, had increased feince 1514 " no le?s than 15 per cent iheodore Wolff, the well-known edi-w:ai edi-w:ai writer of the Berliner Tageblatt, -riig on the tremendouH increase in cases tneft, robbery and the receiving of I n goods. Everywhere, he" says, one irs complaints of the disappearance of r'5ls In transit and of burglaries of I" Si0n stores. People are loth to prose-' prose-' -te for fear of revenue. F;i;rpiary in- "snce companies have raJsed their pre-;riiti pre-;riiti by 5'.', and. In some cases, Irs as rn as 200 per cent.