WHITE SLAVERY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 7

WHITE SLAVERY

SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE

LETTER FOUND ON A PRISONER

CONFERENCE IN LONDON

(CNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTKIQHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received 13th October, 8 a.m.)

LONDON, 12th October

Delegates from seventeen countries attended the conference of the International Bureau for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children at Caxton Hall.

Bishop Ryle, who presided, gave shocking evidence of the "white slave" traffic. He presented the example of two traffickers who were naught in Germany last week, one of whom had confessed tc having biought fifty ;xir!s to Holland during a ?R ar. • A letter written by one trafficker led to the arrest of the otber.

The "letter said : "The five lassies have arrived, and have been sent to New Xork. Hamburg was full of police, but after hard work we brought tie girls to the steamer. Two of the girls nearly betrayed us by crying, but you know the efiect of chloroform. At San Francisco they may cry for father and mother as much aa they like. If you have further merchandise, brir.g it immediately. A cheque for 5 thousand dollars follows. If the giris are not willing, take them to the place I told you of. There they will become reasonable. Destroy this letter ' immediately."