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Show WHITESLAVE TRADE TAKES I ON NEW SPURT Poverty of Central Europe Boosts Traffic in Women's Souls UNWITTING VICTIMS German, Polish or Russian Men and Women Lead In Vice Practice BY MTITON llltoNM K LONDON, July 29. "One of the ev blrsslnr that came to the world whlle the wir was ruglr.g was the almost complete cessation of the v hit" slave traffic, And ono nf th- gremrst nir.'Od that has romf with peace and the tin-settled tin-settled conditions acc rnpunying it Is h resamptton of ihls terrible traffie In human flesh." This statement ! made- to mo hv Miss Anne H i: -r secretary of the National Na-tional Vigilance issoelation of Great tint. iw and Mcrctnrj and director of in friternatioii.il bureau for the sup-i sup-i rrssion of trafhc l" women and chlld-I chlld-I Ic ! I ion. Miss Barer WSI picked as a technical tech-nical assistant tc the Whiti 6lae ommlttee of the League of Nations That means hj.- statements carry ihei Weigh, of the highest authority "Dvring the war transports I Ion w is hard to ge an 1 t ai-sporls were close-1 y .scrutinized, ' Miss Baker say.-. "This I put a stop to shipment of women to resorts ahroad. "Now steamship passage Is easy to. nkll i V nil niti ipl I , C f .1.1 MM 1 1 A I- f B.I are being removed. HI Ill's IV H isi TR II I H "And the wo,-' t of It the terrible economic, condition-, especially In Central Cen-tral Europe, piny directly Into tho hands of the whl e 3'avers 'T.ie greate: demand for white! slaves Is In th- g. t cities of South America. The greatest source Of rap-ply rap-ply is in Central Europe. "But tho field Is now larg r than ever. Before ino war, Russia and Poland were the main fields of exploitation. ex-ploitation. Now many of tn neighboring neigh-boring countries are feeling th? avil. One of the woiv plague spotj Is the free cltv of Dantzig. ' Mf n and w..m.n engaged in this vile business ar largely Gerrnar. Po-iish Po-iish or Russian They have wlde-n ". organizations and uro amply financed. financ-ed. "It la no unusual thing for h cib e-rram e-rram to go to a South American port statin: 'Am shipping 20 bales wool on steamer '. To the agent !n South America that means 20 unfortunate un-fortunate women and girl are i n the way. "Most of the wuttim who become the victims of the white slavers do sc unwittingly. In misery from hunger, unemployment or persecution. they listen to the blandishments of employment em-ployment agents' who tell thorn about free passage. 10 South America where there Is work and good pay "n f.irms or In cigar and clgaret factories. I "When they are landed In a strange place thousands of miles from home, in a city whose language they do not speak and with not a penny cf money Kif, they realize their real plight WHERE ARMY is RECRUITED 'Statistics arc almost Impossible to ?ct. but here am figures Showing the nationality of the women In the U-ranged U-ranged resorts of Buenos Ayr OS In 18W: Austrian, 40; English. 4; French, 841; German, 12; Italian 116; Russian .162. Spanish. 155. The newest thlnjr we have to flfrht he white slaver who employe good looking girls ostensibly as singers and dancers In cabarets and cafe chnnt-ants. chnnt-ants. They are left stranded In dues :md towns across tho seas and with no Way of getting even a pittance for heir slnKinK and dancing. Th- idea Is. of course, to drive them lnto white slavery. ,uu aT rld thcrf' Practically no nited states because both countries have such rigid Immigration laws r,nd such strict superision over passports.'' |