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Show HUNGARY IN FRONT RANKS IN SUICIDES BUDAPEST, (UP). Hungary leads the world in suicides. Although Al-though the total population of the country is less than eight millions, 2313 persons killed themselves during dur-ing the pnst year. The figure for the next twelve months promises to be even greater. Despite every effort on the part of "anti-self-murder" societies and even greater preventative work on the part of the police to drag suicide sui-cide candidates from the Danube the number of self-Inflicted deaths Is Increasing each week. Among the latest suicides was Eugene Bulla, Chief of the Police Statistical Bureau, which keeps the record of suicide cases. He used the method most popular with his fellow-suicides. Avoiding the watchful watch-ful eye of the bridge policemen, whose job it is to. hinder such acts, Bulla jumped into the Danube from the Margaret Bridge, one of Ihe principal connecting links between the twin cities of Buda and Pets. |
