Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1888 — White Slaves in Turkey. [ARTICLE]

White Slaves in Turkey.

Sheffield Daily News. There is said to have been considerable sensation created in Constantinople by the discovery that a market exists there in which European girls are imported for the purpose from Germany, Austria, Italy and Rus -ia an are publicly sold as slaves. The matter is said to have been duly authenticated and is now occupying the attention of the Embassies. The statement is that every week large shipments of German and Italian girls arrive via Verna, Odessa, Salonica and from the Adriatic ports. Needless to add that this human freight is not disembarked on the ordinary custom house quays of the Golden Horn, where passengers and cargo are usually put ashore and where iti presence" would speedily have attracted the notice of the Consular authorities. The girls are landed in small boats at the Turkish quarantine statfin at Kawak, wheneb they are broug t overland through Bujukdere into Constantinople. None are aware of the fate in store for them, having l.een lured to undertake the trip to the Turkish Capital by means of promises of munificent remuneration as governesses, pianistes and other forms of respectable and honorable employment. On arriving they are taken to a place called the “Casino,” and which is nothing more nor less than an exchange or market where human cattle are dealt in as freely as breadstuff's on the Produce Exchange in New York.