SALVATION ARMY

Evening Star, Issue 23695, 1 October 1940, Page 6

SALVATION ARMY

VISIT OF LIEUTENANT-GOLONEL AND MBS EBBS Arriving in Dunedin to-morrow from Christchurch will be Lieutenant-colonel W Alex. Ebbs, the new chief secretary of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, and Mrs Ebbs. After spending Wednesday night here the visitors will travel to Invercargill, but mil return to Dunedin for the week-end to take part in visits to the Army’s social institutions and to conduct meetings. Lieutenant-colonel Ebbs is regarded as one of the international figures of the Salvation Army, and has served with distinction in various ments. The colonel filled field and staff appointments in England before his transfer to France, where he took command of the Paris-Nord Division. Then followed years in Belgium, where he was the aide de camp to the Territorial Commander, and five other difficult but progressive years in Italy as Territorial Leader. Transferred to the United States in 1929, the colonel commanded the Metropolitan and Hudson River Divisions, and later, for nearly four years, the Western Pennsylvania Division, with Headquarters at Pittsburgh. Under his leadership, the Army in the Western Pennsylvania Division advanced and held new strongholds in the salvation war, and positions of higher esteem in the minds of tho public as well as old-time Army friends. He was a director of the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh and the Federation of Social Agencies of Pittsburgh and _ Allegheny County, and a participator in all civic movements for the betterment of his fellow men. Mrs Colonel Ebbs, as Lieutenant Louisa L. Moore, a Scottish “ lassie ” from Stirling, was married to the colonel in Edinburgh in 1913.