Show LI l. D. D S. S I WRANGLE AIRED AIRm American Ambassador Intercedes Intercedes Intercedes In In- in Behalf of Several U. U S S. S Citizens WASHINGTON March 6 AP AP- AP Secretary Kellogg disclosed today that Ambassador Sheffield has Interceded in interceded interceded In- In at Mexico City on behalf of American citizens recently expelled expelled ex e- ex- ex from that thai country but apar- apar I without making any formal protest In a letter to Representative tive Boylan Democrat New York who had demanded withdrawal of or American recognition of or Mexico the secretary said The only Information I Ilave have lave as asto asto asto to the expulsion of citizens of the United States from Mexico is the following There has been beep reported to me that Elder Ralph E. E Brown of oJ the Church of Latter-day Latter Saints was ordered to leave on February 20 by bythe bythe bythe I the municipal authorities of Tula De Dc Allen state of Hidalgo and that the following Mormon missionaries missionaries' front from Ozumba state of ot Mexico have been bee given ten en days day by Lh thE municipal municipal municipal pal authorities In which to leave th the state No m mention nUon Is made mide of oJ their leaving lel the country countr The names of parties as near near as I can make out are Owen V V. Call Daniel H H. Hig- Hig and one other other- person whose n name unel 1 cannot make out ut the dispatch from Salt al lake City nd WOMEN AFFECTED FF f In a dispatch h from the Ameri American can ambassador to Mexico I learned that Mesdames Semple Evans Evan and Connelly of the o o of ot the Visitation a Catholic school situated ed at pt t in the neighborhood of Mexico City bad had been ordered expelled Mr Sheffield interceded for them with the minister of foreign foreign foreign for for- eign affairs The order was was subsequently revoked but I r am Informed by the American lD ambassador That they believed it H to be the best policy to close their school and leave the that they are leaving on the fourth day of offa March fa for Mobile Mobile Mobile Mo Mo- bile Ala I r have today received a message that Madame has hall Informed the embassy that all government gov supervision has been w with withdrawn in indrawn drawn from property at ORDER REVOKED i Another case which came to my attention was tl that at of Dr Di J. J A A. Phillips a Methodist Episcopal or ordaIned ordained ordained or- or minister who was principal of the Institute of the People a school at Piedras Negras opposite Eagle Pass Tex The expulsion was also said to include three thre-e teach teach- ers ens It was afterward reported to tome tome tome me that the order had han been revoked and I am now Informed by the Embassy embassy embassy em em- bassy in Mexico that Phillips will willbe willbe be allowed to return to Mexico and the school will l be reopened provid provided ed he being a foreigner and a minister min mm- ister r of religion does not teach I take It that in this case the expulsion expulsion sion slon Is claimed on the ground that under the Mexican constitution no ordained minister of any any creed may teach In a school of primary in in- in Mr Sheffield reports that he is doing everything e he can an on behalf of Madame ladame Semple and any other i American citizen who may be in difficulty and that he will continue continua I to do so He has been instructed I to this effect It is impossible fOTI for fOT forme I me roe to determine in each of these I cases ases exactly the ground of expulsion sion slon but I assume on the ground that they are teaching in violation I of the constitution and laws of Mexico 1 |