AFTER 34 YEARS IN JAPAN
SALVATION ARMY OFFICER RETURNS VISIT TO PHILIPPINES [United Press Association] WELLINGTON. This Day. Brigadier Annie Smyth. New Zealand officer of the Salvation Army, who has returned after serving 34 years in Japan, says that personally she did not have any trouble but some members of the Army encountered difficulties. Social work was being carried on as usual. While visiting Japanese people settled in the Philippines recently she was billeted at the home of the manager of one of the large Japanese commercial houses and spoke highly of the hospital, ity extended to her even to the extent of lending their car for her work. If the Army carried out the intention to start a corps in the Philippines it was probable that Japanese officers from either North or South America would be chosen to take charge. She in Lends to return to Japan after the war.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 3 December 1940, Page 6
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