LURING GIRLS ABROAD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19292, 3 April 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)

LURING GIRLS ABROAD.

A NORWEGIAN PLOT. POLICE STOP THE TRAFFIC. Operations on a large scale have been discovered by the police just in time to prevent the dispatch of 100 Norwegian girls for what are suspected to he improper purposes. The girls were on the point of leaving the country for France when the police, acting on information received, intervened. The white slavers aro said to have made their plans very cunningly, and astonishing revelations are expected when the full story is known. The method adopted to ensnare the girls was this. At the begining of February an advertisement appeared in the Oslo newspapers stating:—" A young lady wanted as a travelling companion for a small family going to France." A "request was made that applications should be accompanied by a pnotograph. An army officer's daughter, who applied received in reply a letter signed, "Lieut. Ludvig Dahl." The letter stated that she had been engaged, and asked her to join the officer immediately, as he was going on in advance. His mother and sister, it stated, had been taken ill, and would follow later.

The suspicions of the girl's family were aroused, and they began to make secret inquiries, as a result of which it was ascertained that " Dahl " was the assumed namo of a man who had simultaneous addresses at several hotels. He was receiving daily numbers of young girls, and was getting them to sign contracts for travelling to France. He always wore a striking uniform in order to impress the girls and their parents. " Dahl " disappeared, and was believed to have gone to Bergen, probably in the hope of obtaining a boat to take him across the North Sea.