CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 August 1916, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

[■•XiSCTiiIC TCLi'X.'ll.W'ii COl'ritlUHT.j (Received I liih Day 2 p.m.,) AX A.MKRICAX TIM ST. Xew York. August ■.Y Astounding statements have " been made 10 Di-ind-A t tin ney Sm'tli who is ciliated in an investigation into the vice trust. It declares the trust iiad a house in East 22nd. Street, where partly disrobed girl- wore sold to the highest bidder. Fti some cases the girls were weighed and the buyers paid one dollar per pound. Other confessions relate to amazing and, revolt in-.: practices. The trust had highly pa id representative* in many Eastern American