"WORST WOMAN IN LONDON."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14236, 2 March 1917, Page 8

" WORST WOMAN IN LONDON."

PROPOSAL TO INTERN HER., LONDON, February 20J . >.At Mi .meeting; held';. at- the.' .'Mansion House m connection with the,' motor transport volunteers, General Sir Horace referring to a discussion dn the .'Jiimes, said J that a large per- j . coutage of the overseas .troops arrived m London ignorant of the dangers of the ; city..v; Tlie .'motor, volunteers were dojng valuable _ work < iii meeting the night 'troop trains " and conveying the men .'to 'rest < homes., ? • .', ' . y > ' Major-General ' Sir Francis Lloyd ' (Officer Commanding.' the London dis- ' trict) praised the- work' done by the vol- l" unteem. He said that troops from the front sometimes seeking enjoyment 'before" f£oing'<to the rest homes. ' Th© police had little power to ideal with women iv drinking, .shops . and juveniles j who robbed .the soldiers. ' Legislation to deal witli tha imat'teiv, w:aa needed.. I An executive council has > been formed ; for the purpose of combating venereal , diseases. Lord Sydenham, who is presi- i I dent, has written a letter to the Times m opposition to the proposal to intern i prostitutes. Tlie grounds upon which he bases his objection are that a similar policy has failed elsewhere, and that it would' be impossible to restrain the more ' numerous and more dangerous clan- ' destine meetings.