WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18947, 11 March 1927, Page 11

WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.

LfJAGpE COMMISSION'S* ENQUIRIES, TERRIBLE INDICTMENT AGAINST? HUMANITY. (BT CABLS— rBESS ASIOCI^TIOW—(A'JSTRALIAH AMD X.I. CABLV ' AtSe€}ATloirJ (Received March 10th, 7.80 p.m.) GENEVA, March 10. The League Council considered a re<# port on the white slave traffic, whicH is descrihed as one,of the megt terrible indictments against hqnaanitjf ever compiled. Sir Austen Chamberlain proposed and the Council agreed, that volum* one should be issued for puhlicqtipn* but t)iqt voluiue two should be cir» culated only aiqongst the natipn» concerned. He explained that the commission! interrogated §SOO people, of M fewer directly \vith commercialized prostitution. The American representative, Cqlonel Snow, said unofficially thai Ilyitfiin w»s regarded as a bad country by white slave agents because th« police were so keen. The commission reports that Portugal is one of th* worst countries in this respect. The causes contributing to prostitution iii most countries are the low, wages paid to wopien workers in' cabarets. Girls are forced to fall into debt with the inevitable result that they become white slaves through bogus -- matrimonial and employment agencies* The report adds that the motive underlying the traffic is always money* It is a business from which large profits are Remanded. Tfrerq are recognised haunts in nil the large cities used as exchanges, where various types arer engaged to meet" for the purpose of learning tho state pf the mg?ket.