WHITE SLAVERY.
NUN GATHERS INFORMATION. DARING ADVENTURES. Paris, December 24; A remarkable story of the experiences of an Italian Sister of Mercy, who undertook - to obtain first-hand information regarding the white slave traffic, is contained in the second volume of the report of the League of Nations, according to the Paris Soir. Sister Paolina Luisa, says the report, changed into ordinary clothes and deliberately visited those places in Marseilles, Naples, and Genoa, where the white slave traffic was carried on. She represented herself as being interested in recruiting girls for the traffic, and thus gained the confidence of some of the principal agents. Admitted to their secret meetings, she Avas able to acquire important information as to the Avay these people went about their work —information Avhicli the League’s .committee could,not otherwise have obtained. As the result of her adventures she has received communication from persons Avhose activities she has exposed, threatening her with death, and she has therefore been compelled to take refuge in religious institutions in France.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3739, 10 January 1928, Page 3
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169WHITE SLAVERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3739, 10 January 1928, Page 3
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