6 APRIL 1912, Page 14

THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE ",.SPECTATOR."] SIR, In connexion with the letters which have appeared in your paper about decoying innocent young girls to their ruin, is it not possible to ask a return in Parliament of the number of girls between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one who have been reported to the police as missing and have not been found during the last twelve months ?

The mere fact that this shameful traffic is persisted in seems to show that the noble efforts of the Travellers' Aid Society are not sufficient protection to the young womanhood of our country.—I am, Sir, &c., A. L. M.