COMMERCIALISED VICE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 March 1927, Page 5

COMMERCIALISED VICE.

TERRIBLE INDICTMENT AGAINST

HUMANITY

REPORT TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS

PV CABLE -PRESS ASSOCIATION-OOP YKIOH'I

GENEVA, March 10. . The League Council considered the report on the.' white slave traffic, which is described as one of the most terrible indictments .against humanity ever complied. Sir Austen Chamberlain proposed, and the Council agreed, that volume I. should be issued for publication, but volume 11. should be circulated only amongst the nations concerned. He explained that the commission interrogated 6500 people, of whom no fewer than 5000 were directly or indirectly connected with commerdialised prostitution. The American representative, Colonel Snow, unofficially said that Britain was regarded as ’ia bad country by white slave -agents, because the .police were so keen.

The commission report® that Portugal is ono of the worst countries in this respect. ' . The causes contributing to prostitution in most countries are the low wage paid to women workers and the cabarets. Girls are forced to fall into debt with the inevitable .result that they become white .slaves through bogus matrimonial and employment agencies. The Toixirt adds that the motive underlying the traffic is always money. It is a business from which, large profits are demanded. There are .recognised haunts in all the large cities used as exchanges, where the various type® engaged meet for the purpose of learning the .state of the market.