The Archive · 1934

Gen. Evangeline Booth Assumes Office

London, Dec. 5.

Miss Evangeline Booth, the new leader of the Salvation Army, to-day unobtrusively took Up her official duties and immediately afterwards assembled the family of her late brother, Gen. Bramwell Booth, and brought about a reconciliation.

Tnis closes the breach in the Booth family which caused a bitter struggle recently when Gen. Evangeline Booth and her niece, Catherine, contested the army command. The end of this feud is expected to react benet. cially on the work and the morale of the army as a whole—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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