RUSSIAN MENNONITES
OUTBREAK OF TRACHOMA ALARM IN CANADA. Pro** Association—By Telegraph—Copyright OTTAWA, November 5. (Received November 6, at 10 a.m.)' A message from Brandon states that the discovery of 1,300 cases of trachoma among the Russian Mennonita settlers is creating an epidemic alarm.The Government, is opening eleven clinics. [The Mennonites are a Protestant sect, combining some of the distinctive characteristics of the Baptists and the Quakers. Their principal tenet, is the administration of baptism, by _ faith, consequently they do not baptise infants. The sect was established aw Zurich in 1525," and spread rapidly through Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. In 1783 Catherine of Russia* introduced colonies of German Mennonites to South Russia, but in 1871 the Tsar decreed that they should be liable to conscription for the army, and*, should be deprived of certain of their privileges. This caused many of them to emigrate to the United States and Canada.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20634, 6 November 1930, Page 10
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