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Show Severe Measures to Be Adopted iH by Authorities to Stamp TEACHINGS OF ELDERS fH REGARDED AS OBNOXIOUS H Persons Who Insist on Spread-ing Spread-ing Mormon Propaganda to Be Deported. ' .11 Special Cable to Tho Tribune. . BERLIN, July 23. The ' polico au- L thorities, it is announced, intend' to con- 1 duct a relentless campaign against the ;H spread of Alormonism in Germany. The expulsion yesterday of twenty-ono . Americans belonging to the local Mor- -H mon community 15 to be followed, tho r IH polico say, by such 6evere measures as 'H may be needed to stamp out the sect. ;H Persons who insist upon attending the meetings of the church may be ex- 'H pected xo bo turned over to the police, . who will see that they are escorted as ;'H far as the frontier. '1 Leaders Leave Empire. This revival of the campaign is duo to tho renewed activity of the Mormon "H leaders in carrying their propaganda in- rH to Berlin, where their community, in- . eluding a number of families from '1 Utah, has been growing. Four hundred '"H persons were attending a revival meet- ing when the police descended upoj them. The leaders, including Thomas McKay of Salt Lako City, Utah, head flH of the Mormon propaganda in Europe, 'jH were given until Monday in which to JH leave the county and will be watched lH until they cross tho border. MH Authorities Are in Earnest. f. The German authorities havo always ' dealt rigorously with Mormonism, con- sidcring its teachings abnoxious, So- 'fiH cialistic, especially 011 social and ethi- cal grounds, regardless of whether its j followers now practice polygamy or not. . The lead which Germany has taken . willr be an international movement i against Mormonism and Mormon mis- sionaries. For several years mission- ,. aries sent out from England and America have been working diligently on the continent. Recently Mormon- ', "H ism has grown to such an extent in ' European countries that the govern- '"-IH ment took cognizance of protests from vH various churches. No Under Tactics. The campaign to drive Mormonism -J out of Europe will be sympathetic. 'H Those who profess to be members of : rH the church will not be molested as 'H long as their roligious observances do 'H not interfere with tho civil or criminal rH laws of tho country in which they re- ' 'H side. Only the missionaries who arc -.'1 accused or under tactics in preaching r 'H their doctrine will be ordered to leave : !H the country. Of the 'Mormon missionaries whoso :'H .oxpulsion from Germany was ordered : 'H by tho Prussian minister of the iut'e- ';'H nor, thero aro three American young ; 'flH students who may .be allowed to re- I H main. Tho other eighteen will havo M until Monday night to leave German ' "H territory. The police today assembled tho Mor- ' iH mon missionaries. Tho thrcca young jH Americans had, in tlie meantime, ap- pealed to Chnrgo d 'Affaires Irwin Laughlin of the American embassy. Mr. I Laughlin, in the absence of Embassa- jH dor Hill, requested the foreign offico i fH to cancel the order of expulsion for tho fH youug American students until further 1. BH investigation could bo made. This do- lay will likely be granted. I Other Governments Will Aid. Herr Dalwitz, the Prussian foreign minister who has expelled tho foreign ' missionaries, did not act hastily. It " is understood that tho French, Italian, c ; Austro-Hungarian and other govern- , ,H ments stand reudy to continue prosecu- 1 lion if it necessary. It may not bo 1 JH necessary, for word from tho foreign i jH capitals today said that a number of 1 foreigners, who had established them- , selves as Mormon missionaries had al- : ' ready fled. Mormonism has attained a stronger hold in Germany and England than , . many Americans believe. Missionaries tf'H first camo across the Atlantic many years ago. At first meotings of the HtH prosolytes wero hold in the home of a f member of tho new church. Gradually churches have been built and communi- , : '-'H tics havo sprung up. , ' iH Although the missionaries disclaim ' jH polygamy, the civil authorities say that iH it oxists to an alarming oxi'ent in some '1 of tho Mormon settlements in America. , It was this, with the crowing Dower of , ; the Mormon church, that caused the au- t' thorities to t'ako tho action of the past '! Ill |