GENERAL BOOTH

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10701, 23 August 1912, Page 5

GENERAL BOOTH

CABLE NEWS

(Unitfd Prm Auoeiation—By Mkctlic Telegraph—Copyright.)

A NATIONAL LOSS WORLD-WIDE SYM PATHY. (Received August 22, 10.25 a.m.) * LONDON, August 21. Hundreds of telegrams of condolences in the death of General Booth have been received from all parts of the world..

Newspapers of .nil shades pay remarkable tributes, and some liken his work to the Oxford movement.

The King telegraphed to Bramwell Booth : "Tho nation has lost a great "organiser a.n-d the poor have lost 't wholehearted and sincere friend. We will only in the future be ;ible to realise the good be wrought his fellowcreatures. To-day thero is universal mourning wherein I join."

It is stated that the General never received n penny iron) the Salvation Army funds, but a few friends privately provided for all his wants. The body is lying in state and burial takes place next week at Abney Park.

The German papers arc very syin jathetic.

THE NEW GENERAL

(Received August 22, 11.-15 p.m.)

I LONDON, August 21. It is officially announced that Bramweli Booth will succeed his father as head of the Salvation Army. THE GENERAL'S SUCCESSOR. SELECTED TWENTY-TWO YEAR'S AGO. (Received Last Night, 9.15 o'clock.) LONDON, August 22. The solicitor to the Salvation Army, opened a sojled packet entrusted, to him twenty-two years ago by General Booth, in which Mr Bramwoll Booth is appointed successor to the General. MEMORIAL SERVICE ON SUNDAY. WELLINGTON, August 22. Commissioner Richards, who h..is received the official announcement of General Booth's death, advises that a memorial service will he held next Sunday night.

A MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY

FROM NEW ZEALAND

WELLINGTON, Last Night

His Excellency the Governor cabled to-day to Mr Bnmwell Booth, London, the new head of the Salvation Army as follows:—"Accept deep •

pathy on your groat father's:, death, His work in New Zealand is of a striking benefit, realised by all.—lslington."

REFERENCES IN THE HOUSE

WELLINGTON, Last Night

In the House of Representative? this afternoon, the Hon. W. F. Maosey, referring to the death of General Booth, said he had forwarded a cable to Mr Bramwell Booth, expressing regret and condolence at the death of the General. By his death, said the Premier, the world had lost' one of its greatest men. He wag a philanthropist, a groat organiser, and a wonderful man in every sen so of the term. By his piety, energy and force of character ho had lifted thousands from a life of degradation, He hoped the great work initiated by him would be carried on".

Sir Joseph Ward endorsed what Mr M n&sadhcyhrdhiemfwypcmfwypwyppp Mapsey had stated.