League of Nations is due to hold another conference on the truffle fu women and children during April and the Secretariat has; conditions of the exchanges before circularized a number of official and benevolent organizations in all; parts of the world, asking for information on the traffic which would supplement that contained in the report made to the League in 1933,! and for recommendations how the situation can be improved.
In view of the impression created by that report on the mind of the world abroad regarding the situation here, this conference hxs a special interest for 'A despatch from Geneva, published {n the "North-China Herald" on September 19 last year,' stated that the League had been "deeply shocked" by the condition to which Russian refugees in Shanghai had been reduced. The-despatch stated that Russian women, unable to follow th 1¢ example of their menfolk and find employment in various minor ca paci ties. had been forced Into the ite slave traffic. and recommended the removal of Russian refugees to some other country.
The facts regarding the plight for the League's April meeting, ma: ginally administered. They are ne White slave traffe It affects Russian women here mination, of a comparatively niture if it can be said to exis at all in the normally accented mooring fof the term "white slave treme." This so-called gramme exists between Shanehal and various outports in a modified form, Whenever the nu= thorities have been able to attain evidence that women ara Wetng enticed from this city or being taken away under false pre'encvs to Live an Immoral tite, they have of course, taken action. But the p-in= lal trame consists. In women who have decided in favour of an easy lite of their own free will, oF who have Inculted In that Mfe here and have listened to the blandishments of procurers. from other cities and have gone with them under the Im= pression that they can make note money. In the e'rcumstances, there way to stop them, and the trame does not come under category of white-slaving.
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