THE SALVATION ARMY'S LOSS.
OVER A HUNDRED OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS.
(ntl_S ASSOCIATION* TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, May 31. The National headquarters of tho Salvation Army in Wellington to-day received a cablegram from the International Headquarters in London, statin- that over 100 officers and soldiers haTl been lost en the Empress of Ireland. . . The officers who perished include Commissioner'and Mrs Roes (Canadian Commanders), Colonel and Mrs Maidment (Canadian chief secretary), Brigadier Scott Potter. Major and Mrs Findlay, Major and Mrs Creighton, Mrs Major Simcol, and thirty other officers, also the Canadian Staff Band, and Brigadier and Mrs Hunter, on furlough iii Canada from India. References were mado to the disaster in all churches to-day. It is not thought any New Zealand Salvationists wore aboard. *"
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 8
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