UNFAIRNESS CHARGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 11

UNFAIRNESS CHARGE

SALVATION ARMY DISPUTE NO COMMENT BY GENERAL LONDON, May 25. The "Daily Mail" states' that the' international'leader of the Salvation, Army, General Evarigeline' Booth, declined to discuss the allegations of unfairness made by the dismissed Chief of Staff Commissioner Henry Mapp. High officials of the Army concerned in the suggestion of unfairness assert that every consideration was shown.to Commissioner Mapp. Many desire that' the secret history of the case should be revealed. General Booth was eager to deal with the1 allegations .without an inquiry, but senior officers urged strict observance of the ; regulations, pointing out that' Commissioner Mapp has always insisted on delinquents being treated according to the letter of the law. The "Daily Mail" adds that Miss Peggy Laurie, who has issued writs against General Booth and the new chief of staff, Commissioner John McMillan, has not been connected with the Army since her schooldays. Her mother and sister are active in it, and her brother; Brigadier Thomas Laurie, now in the United States, married Commissioner Mapp's daughter in 1913. The paper states that the unanimous findings of the Court of Inquiry by which Commissioner Mapp was tried were bafsed on evidence of incidents on the Continent and elsewhere. No other persons' names were mentioned in the allegations.