The Sentinel=record., 1915-03-05
WHITE SLAVERY IN CONSTANTINOPLE
BIDS FAIR TO DISAPPEAR UNDER VIGOROUS ADMINISTRATION
 OF BEDol BEY.
Chief of Police Has Undertaken the Raid of Number of Places Where the Traffic Flourished

Constantinople March 1.-The not7- liety which has attached to Colstan- tnople as a center of white slave traffic bids fair to disappear under the vigorous administration of Bedri Bey, the present chief of police, who, as recently reported by cable. has un- dertaken the raid of Q number of places where the traffic tlourished
 In this work of suppression Henry Morgenthau the American ambassa- dor, has figured prominently ID 10 the time President Wilson sent him to COnstantinople no personality suf ficiently interested in stopping the evil practices had appeared to grasp the situation. Under the capitula- lions with the powers whereby for eigners in Turkey were not subject Co the laws of the country. the suppress sion of the white slave traffic was practically impossible Foreigners were responsible only to their consoie. and the consular representatives would not work together with the Turkish authorities The persons eu- gagged in the traffic secured pas ports of four or five different countries and would swear as many alleeiances as their varying fortune demanded The Black sea ports of Russia and Ruma- mia, only a few hours sai from Con stantinople were made the basis for the export of human material which the Turkish capital consumed
 One notable Russian consul general, Peter Ponafiding, made every effort 10 suppress the trade insofar as Rus sian subjects were concerned. and the Turkish officials made repeate a tempts at a cleanup, but without co- operation of all the foreign consuls no real impression was made.
 When MT Morgenthau arrived in lConstantinOple near the end of 1913. | he quickly grasped the difficulties and was the first to succeed in bringing the foreign consuls and the highest Turkish police authorities together. All parties professed a willingness 10 do their share in suppression ol the traffic, and the American ambassa dor fortunately had the grip 10 hold them to their purpose. At meeting held last March at the American em bassy the COnstautinOple Association for the Suppression Of tle Traffic A Women was organized G Cornell Tarler, secretary Of the embassy, was appointed secretary The efforts of this association were about to bear fruit when the outbreak of the Euro pean war upset all cooperation in the European diplomatic an consular corps.
 Last October however, the Ottoman authorities abrogated the equalization under which foreigners had enjoyed their privileged position in the em- pire, and although the foreign powers have not accepted this abrogatio1, the entrance of Turkey into the war has caused a general acquiescence. The time for the Turkish authorities 10 attack white slavery in the capita had therefore come. The control of the police is in the hands of Bedrl Bey, who for the past year has been in active accord with Ambassado Morge1thau in his efforts to purge Constantinople of the worst phases ot white slavery Bedri Bey has for some months been gathering evidence against the cadets in the city. Over q score of them had their foyer in quasi synagogue in the most aotori ous quarter of Galatea on the Golden Horn The synagogue was in.epend- ent of the Grand Rabbinate of Fur key and thus was able to escape relig- ious investigation. In January Bedri Beys officers descended upon the synagogue. and closed it's doors They likewise raided the places of the ca dets and arrested 130 of them-