WAR AGAINST WHITE SLAVERS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 185, 23 August 1937, Page 7

WAR AGAINST WHITE SLAVERS

Our Own Correspondent.)

League of Nations Sets Up Special Bureau SMASHING GANGS

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LONDON, Jnly 9. Complello with photographs and finger prints of all known whito slave traffickers in the world, a new "Eogues' gallory" is now being prepared with the setting up of a Far East bureau of the Leaguo of Nations. It will bo rushod around the world, new pietures and biographical sketches ^ip.ing constantly added, so that police authorities in every capital coneerncd will be able to spot traffickers operating in their xnidst, This was explained to 180 delegates, 40 of them from overseas and many of them from Eastern countries, who yesterday attended the opening session of the Eighth Imperial Congress on Social Hygichc held at Caxton Hall, AVesfcminstcr. Details of the world-wido attempt to round up white slave traffickers were given by Mr E. E. Ekstrand, Lircctor of the Opiuin Traffie and Social Questions Scctions of the League of Nations. Eegular reports on the traffie in women and children will be received uy the Bureau from eaeh of the eountries assoeiatcd with its wonc aud circi.iu.ua to all the otliers. The reports will contain par,ticulars of all persons convicted of trafficking in women, girls and children; and those deported for sueh offences, and of wanted persons "who have made their eseape before the warrant of arrest againsfc them could be cxecuted." The Bureau, the first clearing house and liaison centro of its kind, will also suggest measures to Smash the gangs of traffickers.