HOME SECRETARY MAKING INQUIRIES.
"It is proposed to make similar provision for the protection of these girls, and I hope also for the proper punishment of persons who induce any girl under twenty-one to go abroad, knowing — or having reasonable means of knqwing-j-vthat she is going into openly immoral surroundings. "I should be extremely grateful if any of your readers could afford me any help, either by way of information or otherwise, in promoting legislation in the present Parliament. I may say that I know the present Home Secretary has lately been making inquiries into the subject. But Home Secretaries are like other people,- they cannot &-> all they would, at any' rate with- ' help or support." Mrs Booth indicates that she has collected a great amount of sensational evidence in regard to this scandal, much of this having been obtained f1 om Salvation Army helpers at a home for young women employed in Paris theatres. ______ ______**&
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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12519, 22 April 1909, Page 4
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155HOME SECRETARY MAKING INQUIRIES. Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12519, 22 April 1909, Page 4
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