SALVATION ARMY

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 284, 26 August 1940, Page 5

SALVATION ARMY

Aid For Air Raid Victims In England

Salvationists in Great. Britain are succouring sufferers in the bombed areas wherever possible. In the southwest London area a bomb dropped outside the otlicers’ quarters, damaging many houses in the neighbourhood. The Army hall was opened all night to shelter the homeless. Otiieers remained on duty for many hours comforting the bereaved and assisting Hie injured. A War Department canteen visited Croydon after a raid, supplying refreshments to civil and military workers inside the aerodrome. Outside, men's social workers supplied provisions to homeless people and visited tin* hospitals. A Sunderland ollicer, rendered unconscious by coal gas escaping from a burst main, began assisting oilier casualties immediately he recovered. The Portsmouth slum post was pierced with machine-gun hullets, but work for needy people continued without pause. Two shelters in which an ollicer took refuge were successively demolished. but site continued work for the wounded. Raid warnings interrupted many Sunday night open air meetings in London. but indoor meetings wore held as usual.

The Army is extending its work among Hie troops, and this is much appreciated, specially in the largely evacuated coastal towns.