WHITE SLAVERY.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS ACTION URGED. INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION NEEDED. LONDON, March. 11. Sir James Marchant, Director of the National Council for Race Regeneration, of the League of Nations, commenting on the white slave report, urges prompt international legislation through the League, supported by the world’s womanhood, to deal with the awful underground traffic in human flesh. He adds that girls from many North American cities have been sent to (South America, Shanghai and Australia.—(A .and N.Z.)
SALVATION ARMY OFFER. (Received Sundav, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 11. Mrs. Bramwell Booth offers the Salvation. Army’s assistance to the League of Nations to suppress traffic in vice. She points out that the Army promoted a Bill raising the age of consent for girls accepting theatrical engagements, which should greatly help the movement. If the age were fixed at twenty it would not be excessive, because at sixteen girls were usually children in such matters. Mrs. Booth adds that the Salvation Army’s representative in Japan vainly sought permission to address an international convention of keepers of disorderlv houses held in Tokio in IS26.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1927, Page 5
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182WHITE SLAVERY. Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1927, Page 5
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