Author’s NoteThe traffic in young girls to North Africa continued all through the nineteenth century and is now, according to reliable reports, centred in the Lebanon.
The arrangements of sale described in this book still take place in the brothels.
Every year hundreds of foolish young women answer advertisements or accept positions in cabarets, theatres or dancehalls without being assured of a return ticket home.
That the majority are enticed into becoming drug addicts is known to the Police of every European country.
Notre Dame de Laghet is exactly as I have described and the medallions I carry always with me have, I am convinced, protected me against many accidents.