SALVATION ARMY HEAD
COMMANDER BOOTH’S CLAIM
Australian and N.Z Press Association LONDON, Dec. 30.
Commander Evangeline Booth, the general’s sister, has arrived from America to attend the High Council at Sunbury-on-Thsunos on January 8. General Booth has not been informed of the arrival of any of the delegates, or even of the summoning of the council. Although there if) steady progress in his health, the doctors do not agree that he should ho informed. “If elected to succeed my brother,” sail Commander Booth, interviewed by the Daily News aboard the Olympic, “I shall not object.” She said she had not come to steal the throne, but practically every leading officer in the High Council desired a constitutional change within the Salvation Army.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16839, 31 December 1928, Page 7
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