THE SALVATION ARMY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 92, 21 July 1944, Page 3

THE SALVATION ARMY

THREE THOUSAND CLUBS According to the latest report from the International Headquarters of the Salvation Army in London the world wide Red Shield service of the Organisation now includes over three thousand Clubs, Hostels and Mobile Canteens. Ever since Mobile Canteens were originated by The Salvation Army, lessons taught by experience under service conditions have been used to build better canteens. To-day Salvation Army Mobile Canteens are doing good service in Normandy, in Italy and in the Flying Bomb area of Southern England. The latest type of Mobile Canteen is a (5-ton 30 h.p. vehicle with specially insulated body which can serve 4600 men before returning to base. Equipment includes library, radio set, gramophone pick-up and records. sound film projector as well as Thermot Urns for hot drinlss. petrol stoves, etc. A feature of one Red Shield Club in Britain for Canadian Naval men is a Cycle Loan Department from which the boys borrow cycles to tour the neighbouring countryside. A New Zealand Salvation Army Chaplain, Major W. J. Thompson, is right in the thick of things with the N.Z.E.F. in Italy and another Adjutant H. Coffin is with the New Zealanders in the Pacific area. A Recreation Leave Hotel has been established by the. Salvation Army in an I'talian town. Each night live hundred and fifty weary men rest here between clean sheets when they arc on leave from the fighting fronts. In the hotel is a canteen which supplies necessary meals. Games, reading and writing rooms arc available, staffed by military and Italian personnel. In one day four thousand men took advantage of the facilities of the hotel.