SALVATION ARMY APPEAL

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1923, Page 7

SALVATION ARMY APPEAL

TWO MILLIONS AIMED AT. \ "AX UNPARALLELED CALAMITY." ' WELLINGTON, Friday. In face of the unparalleled calamity 1 which has overtaken Japan and, incif dentally, the- work of the Salvation Army there, the New Zealand head- ' quarters of that organisation has rer ceived an appeal from General Bramwcll 1 Booth for financial help toward restoring the results of the patient toil of the 1 past 30 years, all of which vanished in ? a single day. * General Booth says: "The Army, in ! common with other religious assoeia--1 tions, suffered a great blow. Our headquarters and, I fear, our hospital, with other institutions, many officers' houses and soldiers' homes, have gone. They have been thrown down into ruin by the earthquake or reduced to ashes by fire. Most serious and lamentable of all, we have lost some noble and devoted men and women, both Westerners and Japanese. "The immediate call is for the relief of the distressed and suffering people. For this purpose it seems to mc we j should immediately wisely distribute r f 1,000,000 for the restoration of de--1 stroyed buildings and for temporary n erections needed for carrying on Uie c work. For the care of orphan children s another £1,000,000 is needed. These may c- appear largG figures, yet I do not hes • , tate in the presence of this dreadful 1 calamity to present my claim to tne f "The future of Japan is not a matter c which concerns Eastern nations or in s terests Western peoples alone—it » ~ matter which concerns the whole world. U No opportunity has ever before occurrca j- for bringing home to her people MO s influence of Christian charity. sucn . d this. That every one. Let us use it."