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THE "PIMPS' CLUB" AT SINGAPORE 119<br />

the only way to get her is to pretend to marry<br />

her. This he manages secretly at the house<br />

of some distant " registrar " who is generally<br />

one of his own gang. If the girl protests and<br />

wants a priest's blessing that also is obtained<br />

for her, for the " pimps " are experts at disguises<br />

arid have no difficulty in playing the<br />

part of a minister of religion. Another<br />

method followed is to take the girls to France<br />

or Germany and there arrange for a pretence<br />

marriage, the ceremony being performed by<br />

one of the "pimp's" co-villains. Once this<br />

"marriage" is over the " breaking-in " process<br />

begins. The girl has broken with her<br />

family and can seldom return. She drifts<br />

farther and farther away from help and closer<br />

to the end that awaits her in Malay Street<br />

or the opium dens in Hong-Kong. She is<br />

ruined and ill-treated, and the moment she<br />

reaches the East she is sold either into an<br />

opium den or into Malay Street and her<br />

accursed tempter starts out on a further hunt<br />

for girls.

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