Another Salvation Army Scheme.
(Per Press Association) Sydney, Nov. 16. Herbert Booth, addressing an immense Salvation Army gathering, announced a new plan of campaign. He stated the General bad decided to carry the war into and conquer Melanesia and the whole of the islands of the Eastern Archipelago. This was a new missionary field with a population of forty millions. Tbe Army in Australia would be asked to give its flesh and blood to conquer the heathen. He warned the soldiers who volunteered that they might be landed in Borneo, with no better prospect than being served np for breakfast. With regard to work in Australia it was intended to establish new food and shelter depots in the leading centres, including the Christchurch Hospital Corps with a staff of nursing Bisters of the League of Mercy, young Army Corps, Transport Corps, Insurance Corps, and open a new farm colony near Melbourne ; they also intended to extensively develop the wood supplying and rag and bone industries.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 118, 17 November 1896, Page 2
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