WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 11 March 1927, Page 5

WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC

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Received Thursday, 7.10 p.m. GENEVA, March 10. Th'e League Council considered the report of the white slave traffic which is descrihed as one of the most terrible indictments against humanity ever compiled. Sir Austen Chamberlain proposed, and the Council agreed, that volume one should be issued for publication but that volume two should be circulated only amongst the nations concerned. He explained that the commission had interfogated 6500 people, of whom no fewer than five thousand were directly or indirectly connected with commercialised prostitution. The American representative, Colonel Snow, unofficially said that Britain was regardecl as a bad country by white slave agents because _the police were so keen. The commission reports that Portugual is one of the -vvorst countries in- this respect. The causes contributing to prostitution in most countries are the low wages paid to women workers and cabarets. Girls are forced to fall into debt with the inevitable result that they become white slaves through bogus matrimonial and employment agencies. The report adds that the motive underlying the traffic is always money. It is a business from which large profits are demanded. There are recognised haunts in all the large cities used as exchanges where the various types engaged meet for the purpose of learning the state of the market.