DEATH OF GENERAL BOOTH
WORLD-WIDE SYMPATHY.
MESSAGES OF CONDOLENCE
Pieu Association—By Tclejraph-Copyright. LONDON, August 21. Uundrcds of telegrams of condolence on the °f General Booth liave been received from all parts of the world.
Newspapers of all shades pay rcmarkalilo tributes to the Into General, and some liken his work to the Oxford movement of the middle of last century. The King telegraphed to Mr Bramwcll Booth as follows:—"Tlio nation lias lost a great organiser, and the poor have lost a whole-hearted and sincere friend. We. will only in the futore be able to realist: the good he wrought to his fellow creatures. To-day there is universal mourning, wherein I join." It is stated that tho General never received a penny piece from the Salvation Army funds, but that a few friends privately providod for all his wants. His body « now lying in state, nr.d tfi'o burial will take placo nfxt week at Abncy Park. Tho references in the German papers aro very sympathetic.
NEW COMMANDER ANNOUNCED,
LONDON, August 21
It is officially announced that Mr Bramwoll Booth will succeed his father as head of the Salvation Army.
DECISION 22 YEARS OLD
LONDON, August 22. (Received August 22, at 9.15 p.m.) lim Salvation Army's solicitor has opened the scaled packet which was entrusted to him 22 years ago by General Booth, and by which Mr Bramwcll Booth is appointed his successor.
TRIBUTES TO TUB LATE GENERAL.
SYDNEY, August 22.
Many tributes have been paid by the prcs3 and public men to the late (.Jcncr.il booth.
SYMPATHY FROM NEW ZEALAND.
(Pia Unitid Fbiss Association.)
WELLINGTON, August 22.' His Excellency the Governor cabled today to Jlr llramwoll llooth, 1/mdon, now head of Salvation Army, as follows " Accept deep sympathy cn your great father's death. Hi« work in Now Zealand is of striking benefit, realised by all. —Islington."
111 the House of Representative; this afternoon tho Hon. Mr Massoy, referring to tlio death of General Booth, said he had forwarded a cablegram to Mr Bramwell Hooth expressing regret and condole.nre til tho rlouth of tlio general. By his death, said tlio Prime Minister, the world had lost.onn of it* greatest men. He wan a philanthropist, a great organiser, and a womlerful man in tho widest sense of the term. By hi« nietv, energy, and forco of character ho had lifted thousands from n life of degradation. Uo hoped that tho great work initialed by him would be carried on.
Sir J. G. Ward endorsed what Mr MasMy had slated. General Hooth hail worked hio way up from ridicule to the highest place possible in tho philanthropic world, and tho memory of the de'ccascd general would never b'o forgotten,
MEMORIAL SERVICES. (Pin Unitiii Phkbs Association.) WELLINGTON, August 22. Commissioner Richards advises that a memorial sorvico for General Booth will be held next Sunday night instead of on Sunday week.
DEATH OF GENERAL BOOTH
Otago Daily Times, Issue 15540, 23 August 1912, Page 5
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