From Russia To A New Life In Uruguay -- The first of the Mennonites leaving to step on Uruguay soil first the first time. Over 1,750 East Prussians, followers of the strict Mennonite religion, have just arrived in South America to take up a new life. 750 of them disembarked from the Dutch liner, Volendam at Montevideo, the remainder continuing the journey to Paraguay. These people lived originally in East Prussia; they moved to Danzig to escape the Nazi persecution, and thence to Russia when the