CHINESE GIRLS
AS SLAVES FOR £lO
SINGAPORE, Aug. 1
The usual price for Chinese and Javanese girls sold into slavery in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies is £lO.
This i.s revealed by investigations 111 preparation for tho League of. Nations Conference on traffic in women, to be held in Java noxt February.
Despite the work of the police and the immigration authorities, the white slave, traffic still thrives in the Ear East. Gangs of traffickers in women use forged passports and documents purporting to be signed by headmen of isolated villages to lure tho girls to Singapore and other cities, where they are sold into slavery.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 7
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