SALVATION ARMY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 440, 22 May 1937, Page 5

SALVATION ARMY

OFFICER PREJUDGED REFUSES TO ACCEPT DISMISSAL Demand For Proper Court Of Inquiry / Press Association —Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) London, May 21. Commissioner Henry Mapp, Chief of Staff of 'the Salvation Army since 1929, has been dismissed from the Salvation Army by General Evangeline Booth, following an inquiry by live senior commissioners. The Daily Herald says there js no appeal from this decision, but questions arising from the charges against Commissioner Mapp may come before the civil court. Commissioner Mapp, in la statement today, said that published statements were incorrect. He refused to accept General Booth’s dismissal without a hearing. He agreed 'to a Court of Inquiry, but no court-martial, being held. The five senior commissioners apparently sat in secret on Mlay 14, but they were not properly constituted as 'a Court of Inquiry under the rules and regulations of the Salvation Army. He was not present, and his request that certain witnesses should be called was refused. He was not only prejudged and condemned without a heiaring, but also nobody was allowed to say a word on his behalf.

It was announced on April 12 that Commissioner John McMillan had been appointed by General Evangeline Booth to be her chief-of-staff and second in command of the Interna, tion'al Salvation Army, in succession to Commissioner Mapp, who had. had a serious breakdown in heal' h. Commissioner Mapp became a Salvation Army officer in 1889,. served first in India and Ceylon, and' was then transferred to London. After holding administrative positions in Great Britain and Canada, he was commander of the Army in South America and 'hen Japan. He subsequently pioneered the. Army’s work in Russia, and later (acted as international secretary. He ig vice-chairman of the Salvation Army Trustee Co.