BRIGADIER SMYTHE
RETURN TO NEW ZEALAND
(Received August 25. 11 a.m.)
TOKIO August 24
The Salvation Army officer Brigadier Annie Smythe, of Wellington, who has been one of the most picturesque figures in Tokio for the last quarter of a century, has sailed for New Zealand.
Brigadier Annie Smythe is a graduate of the University of New Zealand and a well-known missionary in Japan. She has done a great deal of travelling on behalf of the Salvation Army and has given special attention to work for migrant English soldiers and sailors who happened to be in her territory. According to local advice, though she is .now retiring from active service she intends to return to Japan and settle there.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1939, Page 8
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