SALE OF CHILDREN.
RUSSIAN TRAFFIC IN PERSIA. [press association.] (Received February 28, 8.27 a.m.) TEHERAN, 27th February. It was stated in the Persian Parliament at Teheran that 450 children have been sold at Ashkabad, the capital of the Russian Trans-Caspian Territory, and that 160 girls had been taken to Tiflis, capital of Caucasia, for service in the "hotels there. The Governor of the Khorassan province of Persia was accused of connivance. He has been recalled. [It was recently cabled that the Persian parents of theso children were selling them in order to raise money to pay taxes.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 50, 28 February 1907, Page 7
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