WHITE SLAVE ACT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1653, 21 January 1913, Page 5

WHITE SLAVE ACT.

floggings ordered.

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright ■ ■. ' London, January 19, A man named Timothy Patrick Conner has been sentonoed to eighteen, months' imprisonment at fho Old Bailey and to recoivo thirty strokes of tho cat for foreing ,his wife to lead an immoral life. Frederick Austin, a musician, charged also under tho White Slavory Act, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and to rcceivo twenty-four strokes Of tho cat.

MISCREANTS FLEE FROM LONDON. (sfl y 3 th « London Daily Mail of December 12) feverish- preparations to leave tho country havo been made by tho men who had trapped innocent girls in our cities. This activity, our contemporary was informed' f P ? 1CO tr hclal, bcßlm directly i nnJn 63 rtf becafflO known confirming tho clause in the White Slavo Bill, which empowers a magistrate ,to , order a flogging on a first conviction for certain oltences, and inserting an amendment making tho Bill becomo opervo, not in January, as was at first proposed, but directly it received tho Royal

"We know from our own observations and Irom information wo havo received fomo of wl'ito slavo viotims " said tho police authority already quoted that a great number of foreign procurers and bullies are making preparations for an immediate flight. Theso rascals who do not ordinarily tako any i 'torest in the proceedings of Parliament, aro anxiously watching for tho decision of the llouso of Commons on the Lords' amendments. If tho Houso of Commons adopts the amendments there will bo a welcomo and immediate increase in tho cross-Channel departures. "Theso clearances having been effected everything will depend on whether tho magistrates exercise their powers to order a flogging in addition to imprisonment. If they do not we shall soon havo tho foreigners back again, and tho number of Englishmen who follow tho culling will won assume its old proportions,'!