SALVATION ARMY

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1929, Page 5

SALVATION ARMY

GiCXEUAL BOOTH. ALERT AND ACTIVE. (United Press Association.—ByElectric Telegraph.--Copyright.) LONDON, Fob. 7. A special interview with a Daily Express representative, 11n* first interview given by General Booth since his illness, resulting in the interviewer describing him ns “astonishingly alert and mentally active.” The interviewer says: “lie spoke with vigour and clarity in a sustained argument, all of which was fuirprising, in view of the accounts of his frailly.” General Booth justified his appeal to the law as being “the only iVng that a honourable man could do.” fie proceeded: “Tell my people to keep on with the work. 'Whatever happens, they must tell tile story at the corner of the street: just as though nothing were tin* matter. No .nan or woman must he the loser hceau.se of the present difficulties. Tell the public that Bramwell Booth is not going to fail in the trust committed lo him by his father. While I was ill I. was thinking much about the future, want to help widows and families send more hoys to Australia and Canada, and to reinforce the missionary holds.”