CAPTAIN GIPSY SMITH
All Hilda of questions are being asked coiKserning the world-famous evangelist, who is jiisfc completing his Wellington campaign, and will then come on to Dunedin. Why is he called Gipsy Smith? Is he any relation to the other Gipsy Smith,? Why is he called captain? All the questions arc quite easy to answer. He is called gipsy because he is a gipsy, having been born in a gipsy tent in Glasgow thirty years ago. Ho is of pure Romany stock. He is no relation whatever to the older Gipsy Smith—just another of the big army of Smiths tnronghout (he world. He earned the title of captain through meritorious work in the Great War. Gipsy Pat Smith was early in the war, was ninteen months in hospital through wounds, and on Armistice Day ho war, in the firing line as captain of the Northumberland Fusiliers. He was a good fighter in the war, and he is also a fighting preacher.
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Evening Star, Issue 18669, 25 June 1924, Page 6
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162CAPTAIN GIPSY SMITH Evening Star, Issue 18669, 25 June 1924, Page 6
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