BRAHWELL BOOTH DOES NOT INTEND TO GO TO COURT

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6815, 19 January 1929, Page 9

BRAHWELL BOOTH DOES NOT INTEND TO GO TO COURT

Assurance to Council

FINANCIAL EMPASSE EXTREMELY AWKWARD ONLY LEGAL SIGNATURE. Sua Cable. Received Friday, 11.20 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 18. General Booth does not intend to appeal to the courts, says the Daily News, upon the assurance of one of the General's closest adherents in the High Council. The newspaper adds that Commander Catherine Booth gavo the High Council a similar assurance on Wednesday. The family says his lotter has been misunderstood on this point.

“Faithful Still Among the Faithless” EIGHT BOOTH PROTAGONISTS Received Friday 7.30 p.m. ' LONDON, Jan. 18. The eight who voted against the deposition of General Booth included four members of his family; namoly, his wife, two daughters, May and Catherine, and his youngest sistor, Lucy, who is . Mrs Booth-Hellborg. Tho four others, according to tho Daily Express, were Commissioners Allister Smith, the Army's travelling representative in missionary countries, Theodore Hitching, private secretary to the founder and at present editor-in-chief of the War .Cry, J. B. Laurie, Chancellor of the Salvation Army exchequer and John Cunningham, who accompanied the deputation to ask the General to resign, but was strongly averse to his compulsory removal.

Morning Post Says Booth Has Been Badly Advised ONLY WEA3EN THE ARMY. Received Friday, 7 p.m. LONNON, Jau. 17. A Salvation Army official points out that General Booth, as sole trustee, lias vested in him valuable properties in England. France and Australia and it is necessary that he should cxecufc a deed to divest himself of that trust. If General Booth refusos. the onus is on the Council to initiato proceedings in the High Court regarding the matter. Tho Morning Post, in an editorial, says General Booth has been ill-advis-ed. He still has a noble part to play by accepting the facts, painful as the position must be. The great personal sympathy felt for him may ensure, under his .appointed successor, the full and fruitful functions of the Salvation Army. Any other course of action will only weaken the Army and will not add. to' tho high respect in whicli the name of Bramwcll Booth is deservedly held.

Finances Tied Up BAY OF OFFICERS WILL BE WITHHELD. Received Friday, 7 p.m. LONNON, Jan. 37. It is understood that up to midnight, no official notification had been made to General Booth of the High Council 's decision. The task of informing the General will be left to tho lawyers who for 40 years 1 have handled tho law business of tho Army. It is understood General Booth may decide to assume a perfectly passive attitude and will authorise his bankers to honour only such cheques as are signed on bis bohalf by certain representatives. It is believed he will refuse to sign any conveyance which will tend to surrender his power as Gcnoral. This will inevitably bring matters to a crisis. Every officer ht headquarters is paid by cheque, which has to bo signed by General, Booth and they cannot Tceoive anv further payment Without his authority.

Appeal of General That Was Suppressed REPLACED BY DISPOSITION ANNO UNCEMENT. Received Friday, 7 p.m. LONNON, Jan. 17. The following letter was to' have appeared in tho War Cry from General Booth: “Bolovcd comrades:—ln this moment of serious anxiety and crisis of our history, I turn to you to keep up the high standard of the Army. Go on with your work of publishing the sinners’ friend, confident in Him and in our cause and looking to Him to carry us through the battle I am lighting. I will fight, with little strength though I have, but in tho strength of the King, I shall come through. Pray and fight for mo.” The High Council had the following submitted: “At the High Council meeting bn January IG, after conforming to all requirements, a deed poll adjudicating the decision was reached by which the General was relieved from office. Further 'information will be published in tho next issue. ’ ’

General (Retired) \ DEMOCRACY TO SUCCEED TO CONTROL OF THE ARMY LONDON, .Tan. IS.

a notice exhibited at the Salvation. Army headquarters to-day set out that

during tho interval between the appointment of the new General, the Chief of Staff is empowered to exercise the powers and discretions of a General. It is expected that certain guarantees will be exacted from the candidates before the ballot proceeds. The intention is that the future government of tho Army will be on a democratic foundation. Booth will retain the title of General, with an addition of the word “retired.” He will be granted a retiring allowance.