CONTROL OF SALVATION ARMY

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 September 1929, Page 7

CONTROL OF SALVATION ARMY

HIGH COUNCIL ACTION NOT YET MADE LEGAL

MYSTERY OF MABY BOOTH

Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 7. Mystery surrounds Commander Mart Booth’s return from Germany.

The official explanation is that she is one of several officials moving from •one territory command to another. The Daily Chronicle explains that when the late general was deposed, a numbers of officers approac.nM the sick general. His advice was: “Stick to your post and trust in God. ’ ’ Since then, Commissioner Catherine Booth has carried on loyally as head of the women’s work, but several prominent supporters of the late general were transferred to distant appointments. Thus, General' Bramvvell Bototh’s sister, Commissioner Booth-Hcllberg, who is lj3, was told to go to South America. Meanwhile, legal proceedings initiated by the late general are still unsettled and r until the Courts decide whether the action of the High Council is legal, all deeds connected with the Army are being countersigned by the executors of the will, who are Mrs. Booth, Commissioner Catherine Booth and the late general’s solicitors. If the Courts decide that the High Council acted ultra vires, the sealed enveloped will be opened and the nominee, who is understood to.be Catherine Booth will bo appointed legal (general.

A decision is impossible before the end of October.

Commander Mary Booth, C.8.E., is fche second daughter of the late General Bramwell Booth After a course 3n the International. Training College .the Salvation Army, she became an officer, and commanded several corps in tihe United Kingdom. She was jointly responsible for the Army’s work amongst the troops in France, work for which she was awarded the C.B.E. She wrote “With the B.E.F. in Franco.”