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Show VICE INVADES AN ARMY CAMP SEATTLE. Oct. 28. Major General H A. Greene, commanding the Camp Lewis cantonment, charged today that j a powerful vice syndicate was operat-1 ing here and declared that unless lm-1 mediate action was taken to clean up j tho city he would order his soldiers to keep away from Seattle. 1 "I have been supplied with proof that there Is an organized and powerful vice syndicate In Seattle, using 2300 women," wom-en," General Greene asserted, "and some of tho men involved are high in authority. Unless this evil thing is crushed I soon will Issue an order prohibiting pro-hibiting my troops from visiting Seat-tle. Seat-tle. "If those women, now being used by the vice syndicate, wore pitiable victims vic-tims of circumstances, one could feel charitable concerning this situation, but the women arc the beneficiaries only to a small degree, while tho monsters mon-sters who employ thm are growing wealthy." , The alleged syndicate, he charged, employs also bootleggers and gam-, biers. j |