CHILDREN FOR SALE
SOLD TO FARMERS SLAVERY IX HUNGARY. Press Association—By Telegraph —Copyright, VIENNA, August 10. A peasant woman in the market place at Debrescin. in Hungary, offered her three children lor sale. A [oiirtoon-year-old girl fetched £3, and n. tbree-year-oid boy 2or. A baby of nine months was not sold. Inquiry shows that owing to the terrible plight of tho peasantry the sale of children is common, and regular market prices exist. The maximum is about £3 for children aged between thirteen and fifteen years. The buyers arc farmers seeking cheap, unprotected labor. Tho children will never again see their parents.—A. and h.A. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 8
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105CHILDREN FOR SALE Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 8
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