Show I I Church Conducts I I Greatest Exodus In Modern Times I Mennonites Flee From United States and Canada to Form J y Co n in in- in P Paraguay I- I i in in SAmerica S. S America f By JAMES I. I MILLER I United Press Staff Correspondent BUENOS AIRES Jul July 16 The Tho Tho greatest religious exodus since the I children of Israel tIed fled from Egypt Is IsI just getting under way toda today I Sixty thousand Mennonites members members mem mem- bers of ot a religious sect which doesn't believe In war are fleeing to Paraguay from the United Stat States s and Canada They propose propose to establish their own nation within Paraguay ua and manufacture manufacture I ture and sell goods United States I capital Is said to back them Members of this sect had trouble during luring the var war with Germany when the they objected ted to going into the thc American AmerIcan Amer Anier- I ican and Canadian armies So they've decided to shake slake the dust of ot those countries off ort their feet teet and move to Paraguay Paragua Fred Engan a Minnesotan representing representing I the Mennonites 1 toda today obtained an ani option from from rom tho the Paraguayan government gov- gov eminent on acre acres The Paraguayan Paraguayan Para- Para guayan go government yesterday passed I a law exempting sons of the Mennonites Mennonites Mennon Mennon- ites from military service Six representatives of ot the sect have I Just completed a tour pf f several weeks through the territory the they propose propose propose pro pro- pose U to Settle ettle on At present It Is Inhabited in inhabited inhabited In- In habited only b by Indians and some porI portions por por- of it have ha not been visited by I whites white's since 1635 1633 when the Spaniards crossed from Aires The Mennonites' Mennonites representatives sa say I they Intend to build railroads and se secure so- so cure an outlet for their products through the Paraguay rf river r It It is r re reported reported re- re ported the they arc backed by the tho National City bank of ot New York YOlk |