SALVATION ARMY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 444, 27 May 1937, Page 3

SALVATION ARMY

PRESENT DISPUTE General Booth Declines To Comment London, 'May 25. General Booth declined, to discus’s Commissioner Mapp’s allegations of unfairness regarding his dismissal from the Salvation Army, slays 'the Daily Mail. High officials of the Army concerned in the suggestion of unfairness assert tha't every consideration was shown Commi&stoner Mapp. Many desire that the secret history of the case should be revealed. General Booth was e»ager to deal with the allegations without an inquiry, but ithe senior officers urged strict observance of the regulations, pointing out that Commissioner Mapp was always insistent on delinquents being treated according to the letter of the law. The Daily Mail odds that Miss Laurie, who has issued writs against General Booth and his successor, is not .connected' with the Army. Wince her schooldays her mother and sister have been active in it. Her brother. Brigadier Thomas Laurie, now in the United States; married Commissioner Mlapp’s daughter in 1918.

The unanimous findings of the court of inquiry by which Commissioner Mapp was tried were based on the evidence of incidents on the Continent and' elsewhere, says the Daily Mail. No other persons’ names r ere mentioned in the allegations.