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WHITE SLAVES.

Ruses of Traders to Entrap

Girls. LEAGUE CAMPAIGN. GENEVA, May 11. In connection with the League of Nations investigation of the white slave traffic, a special committee has been appointed to deal with the question of bogus theatrical agencies. The usual method employed by these agencies is to rehearse the stage-struck girls in a remote town for months. Suddenly the impresario vanishes, leaving hotel bills unsettled and the girls stranded and threatened with prosecution for fraud. Then enters a suave "gentleman" who offers to finance them or find tliem engagements on the films. He instals them in flats and provides expensive gowns. Later the girls are presented with a bill and threatened with arrest unless they accept his conditions.

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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 7

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WHITE SLAVES. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 7

WHITE SLAVES. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 7