Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-07-22 | Page 1 | Mormons Expelled

mm Thomas McKay of Og-den Og-den and 140 Missionaries Mission-aries Leave Germany Deri in, July 22. Herr Dahvltz, Prussian minister of the interior, on recommendation of the political police has signed yders for the expulsion of twenty-one Mormon missionaries.most I of whom are Americans or Englishmen English-men and they will be conducted to to the frontier today The missionaries mission-aries had assembled from various parts of Germauy at the Mormon head-quarteis head-quarteis on the east side to meet Superintendent Su-perintendent McKay, an American resident In Switzerland. Thev were holding a service when an agent of the political police, who was seated hi the audience arose and declared the gathering dissolved. At the moment. mo-ment. seeral members of the criminal crimin-al police appeared and virtually took the congregation In custody. The women were asked to leave the place and the men were examined as to their nationality. Those found to be. Germans were released while the others oth-ers were requested to accompany tho officers to the police presidencyThere, after further examination, they were permitted to go to their lodgings to i await the Issuance of writs for their expulsion ! The status of Mormons In Germany was taken up in exchanges, by the foreign office and the foreign embas-1 sy In 1003 when the government i took the position that the teachings ! of the missionaries were subversive i of morality. It was then arranged with the Mormon Mor-mon superintendent, through the Am-' erlcan embassy, that all Mormon missionaries mis-sionaries should withdraw from the ' country within a month, transferring the middle European headquarters from Berlin to Switzerland Subse- . quently 140 foreign leaders departed. I leaving the German societies, with a total membership of S.000. in the care j of German pastors. The authorities state that, in recent years, the Mormons have disregard-, ed the understanding of 100:: and from time to time individual missionaries have been apprehended and expelled. In such Instances they have not ap j piled to the American embassy for relief nor made a protest against their expulsion