A MODERN EDEN
SWISS EXPEL GERMAN SECT GENEVA, December 29. Sixteen Germans of both sexes who walked about the woods on private property in a perfectly nude state in spite cf the rain and cold been expelled from Lugano (Switzerland). They were followers of the simple life, and members of the Garden of Eden sect, which endeavoured to emulate the lives of Adam and Eve as recorded in the Bible. The police intervened because the local population threatened to severely assault the Edenites in accordar.ce with their own notions of moral codes. Orders were given that the paj-ty must leave Switzerland within twentyfour hours —and clothed in a manner satisfactory to local conventions. Among the expelled people were a count and countess and a baroness.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 246, 7 January 1928, Page 11
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125A MODERN EDEN Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 246, 7 January 1928, Page 11
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