Mormons Go
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Strange Development in Pacific Missions
From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Jan. 4.
BY direct order, it is said, of the head of the church in Utah, USA, the Mormon missions have been with drawn from French Oceania and Tonga.
No reason has been given for this decree, nor is there any indication whether the withdrawal is temporary or permanent.
The principal activities of this mission have been centred in the Tuamotu Is lands, and at Tubuai in the Australs; although there is a chapel and an ad ministration building in Papeete.
The entire staff of the mission departed, on November 19, on board of the schooner “Bernice”, chartered to take the company to Honolulu.
The withdrawal would have been more dignified if Mr. Cannon, the head of the mission, had not given two interviews — one at Honolulu, the other at San Francisco. If Mr. Cannon is correctly reported, he has mis-represented condi tions in French Oceania —much to the delight of the yellow press—and has added another chapter to the vast litera ture of “things that are not so”.