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White Slave Crisis Looms in Germany
Berlin reports 3700 German women abducted in the last year and shipped to resorts in France the United States South America and the Balkans by white slave traders. Prussian officials push for a death penalty bill for kidnappers and accomplices. A detainee's letter to Hamburg hints at routes to New York and Frisco, reflecting a distressing crime network.
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