WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 92, 16 March 1927, Page 12

WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.

TERRIBLE INDICTMENT. GENEVA, March 10. The League Council considered the report on, the white tdave traffic, which is described as ono of the most terrible indictments against humanity ever compiled. Sir Austen Chamberlain proposed and the Council agreed that Volume 1 should be issued for publication, but that Volume 2 should be circulated only amongst tho nations concerned. He explained that the commission had interrogated 6500 people, of whom, no fewer than 5000 were directly or indirectly connected with commercialised prostitution. The American representative, Colonel Snow, unofficially said that Britain was regarded as a bad country by white slave agents because the police are so keen. The commission reports that Portugal is one of tho worst countries in this respect. Tho causes contributing to prostitution in most countries aro the low wages paid to women workers, and cabarets. Girls aro 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 demanded. There are recognised haunts in all large cities used as exchanges, where the various types engaged meet for the purpose of learning tho state of the market.— A. and N.Z. cable.