SALVATION ARMY & THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2428, 6 April 1915, Page 6

SALVATION ARMY & THE WAR

_ Oi approximately some 10,000 Salvationists who have enlisted, 3000 are bandsmen. . In some cases the whole baiid and the-corps has volunteered. In one regiment whose colonel was desirous of forming a band, on inquiry being madoi it was found, that there were some 60 Salvation Army bandsmen in the camp, consequently 25 of,the best were picked, and Salvationists form the regimental band.

I Women Salvationists are working among the wounded on the Continent, the business of hospital visitation being organised under responsible officers in the French capital, and at the base in Boulogne.

In over 100 military camps Salvation Army women are contributing towards the happiness and well-being of the soldiers. A correspondent' points out while much is being done by the various religious agencies for:the welfare of the men,, one circumstance that makes the work of the Army differ from all other efforts of the kind, is the ■ important share that • women are allowed to take in it. Most of tho organisation's stations are in charge of married officers. 1 - :.

An. English _ Salvation. Army officer, wrote to the sister of General Sir John .French asking her to preside, at a meeting to be Held by Mrs. Commissioner Higgins. General French's sister wrote, in reply, remarking that Sir J. French had stated that he especially appreciated the Salvation Army men who were at the front; and added that they were most valuable.

The organisation is sending six more ambulance cars to the front. The Hon. Mr. Tennant has agreed on condition the cars are manned by Salvationists. Sir Hutchinson Poe, (colonel in chief of Boulogne base) called at the International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, London, a few weeks ago, and asked for two officer's to be appointed to his personal staff, one, a man to be responsible to look up missing men, the other a woman who would meet the women who came to see wounded soldiers in France, and comfort them. Commissioner Higgins told him that he could not agree to anything but Salvation Army uniform being used and that they would be under his orders. The colonel replied that they would bo useless to him in any other uniform. Tho officers have since left for the front.