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WHERE WALLACE WORKED

At the end of last month a'mem- orial to Edgar Wallace was unveil e at the Ludgate-circus end of Fleet-street..

It is in the form of a plaque and is placed in the wall of Thomas Cook & Son's branch office.

WAA

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EVANGELINE BOOTH

The High Council of the Salvation Army will meet shortly to elect a successor to General Higgins, whose retire- ment from the leadership of the Salvation Army will take effect at the end of the year.

of

In this coincction the mana Commander Evangeline Booth, the daughter of the Founder, is being freely quoted. Commander Evangeline Booth, who is 69, is the inspiring genius of the Salvation Army in America.

The following, sketch of her personality and character comes from the peu of one who has long been closely associated with her in her work, The Hon. Mr. Henry W. Taft. Mr. Taft, a brother of the late President W. H. Taft, is chair- man of the Salvation Army Advisory Board and e former president of the American Bar Association.

the

This briefly summarises work for which the Commander has been the organiser and in- spirer, and of which she has been [the chief executive for many

years. But she has also been the spiritual leader of hundreds of thousands of loyal men and wo- men whose confidence in the deep sincerity of her faith is unbound- ed,

A personal word about Com- mander Booth: She is tall and slender, with brown eyes set deep beneath an intellectual brow, framed in masses of red-brown hair. She has a sensitive mouth, curving readily into lines of happiness at the sight of children. or in the acknowledgment of work well done.

In

In habits she is simple, living quietly in a suburb of New York. brief periods of relaxation she walks through the countryside with her Great Dane Helga at her heels, or rides on her brown mare Golden over the Westchester, hills,

It was on the pavement outside this office that Wallace used to sell; newspapers-his first pitch. The ceremony, which short one so as to avoid traffic die-ELECTION of a leader endowed while in the quiet of her garden location, was performed by Mr. R. with qualities needed in the pre- she writes her sermons and les D. Blumenfeld.

sent special situation requires tures and does much of her plan- The plaque is the work of Mr. prayerful consideration.

ning, Boyle Janes.

It makes of solemn import the The Commander has a bound-

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So that now Lord Northcliffe is coming meeting of the High less capacity for, and devotion to, were dropped. One of them fell commemorated at one end of Fleet-Council of the Salvation Army, work. Mind and body are

a school, killing eighteen street and Wallace, his one-time composed of

women less until the heavy programme children and injuring twenty subordinate, at the other.

directing the activities n the she outlines for herself is fulâll- Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 1934. nine. In all, one hundred and

Army in almost every country ofled. Night conferences frequently sixty-two persons were killed and four hundred and thirty-two

the world, for it is at the convo-follow a busy day at her office, or [cation of the High Council that aun evening's sermon to a large injured, the monetary value of

now world leader is to be selected, congregation, and in the small the damage amounting to

It is in that connection that Ihours of the night the Commnan- Even the much-suffering Bri-ing machines was brought down.

£126,000. Not one of the raid-i isn't likely to affect the wild oat write what I know of the Ameri- der may telephone for a bit of in- tish Government has long been Such raids only ceased when

can branch of the Army and its formation too important to her aware that while it has been through the strengthening of the

Commander-in-Chief, Evangeline work to wait for morning. A re- Little Thought practising disarmament, other defences, the raiders were made

cent example of week-end activity Eve never worried about how For the last fifteen years. on her part is typical. nations have actually been speed- ing up their preparations for aware that they were no longer she was dressed; Adam never had chairman of the Advisory Board

An Emotional Orator Britain in consequence is able to forget such a

worth while. But can it be pos-to have his trousers pressed.

lesson? to-day dangerously weak in all A hostile nation to-day could

York, I have been in frequent con- After a full day at National the three defence services. Her leastly send out a vast num- If at

BUSYBODIES' VERSION tact with Commander Booth, hav-Head-quarters in New York the admitted inferiority in the air is ber of bombers

first you don't

ucceed, Ing been consulted by hor on Commander took the midnight viewed with increasing gravity. claration

on the de-pry, pry, pry again.

many important, and sometimes train for Worcester, Massachu- Lately, the matter was made the even before it and the inten- of war or perhaps,

vital, questions of policy.

setts, where she conferred on Sa- subject of earnest comment in tion is freely proclaimed of using Many

THE COMPLEAT WANGLER The growth and influence of the turday with the officer in charge. the Commons and Mr. Bald-bombs filled with deadly gases. fishing.

Army in the United States

of the New England division of husband who R win spoke reassuringly

due to the courage, vision, spiri-the Army. On Sunday she of It is the knowledge of these the

ducted three Government's

tuality, and human sympathy, as intentions.

religious services, Such anxiety

thing that is doing more than

lecture in а capital

to 2,500 city situated 80

anything else to keep alive that Facts You Did Not Know well as to the extraordinary busi- including a near to general feeling of fear which

ness ability, of Evangeline Booth. people, after which she made a possible bases of attack is very prevents pacification and dis-

I continually find cause to re-dash for

the midnight train to natural, especially since it is armament. Regret that fact as

and New York in order to be on time spect her grasp of affairs agreed that in aerial warfare no we may, Britain cannot afford to

knowledge of character.

for an appointment at 8.30 Her really effective defence exists leave herself open to easy destires on motor vehicles.

Italy has prohibited the use of solid alert mind keeps step with the Monday morning with the Terri- Only the poor second-best of a truction.

trend of the times. Her gift in torial Commander from Atlanta, partial defence and a swift re-

forecasting events affecting the Georgia, whom she had summoned tallation remains, and even

Other nations, while relying Railway terminals for

Warsaw, Army is remarkable. Indeed, she to conference. more and more on gas-masks and Poland, will be electrified and moder-has that keen perception of the these Britain admittedly is shock-bombproof shelters, are as ready aired.

This pace, after forty years of ingly weak. To-day we find Mr.as wasps to sting back.

practical that pae expects to find strenuous work, could only be Baldwin, when speaking in Scot- there that the true defence lies, It is

woman who en- land, suggesting the advisability in the power to make a would-be ping a panel.

A radio set is hidden in one arm of only in successful captains of in-maintained. by a A new chair, being revealed by drop dustry or finance, and her time is joys health and boundless energy. of a northward move on the part enemy think twice and

not wasted by humbugs, for, she

No picture of Evangeline Booth of aircraft industries. It recalls three times. the preparations made for shift anathy, is the moral of the raid That, not passive

has an uncanny gift in detecting would be adequate whch did not all varieties of them.

mention her strong personal urge ing, if necessary, the seat of of Time, 1917.

for religious activities. government from London to London in particular, must be Britain and Edinburgh during the much less equipped for such protection a

I have worked bea'de the Com- the fact that the Salvation Army, perilous period of the threatened is possible and for counter-offen- for Hong Kong yesterday at 4eemed impossible to obtain the General William Booth, was.and. The 8.5. Ranpura left Shanghai mander in difficult days when it founded by her father, the late invasion by Napoleon. Baldwin did not endeavour to that, she requires fighting aero- about 7 m.

Mraive measures if needed. For p.m., and is due here on Friday at means, of carrying on her projects always has been primarily re- explain the Government's persis-planes, and in numbers con-

for the relief of the poor and deeligious in its purpose. tent refusal of a long-standing siderably beyond the Govern

titute, tor the Army has not al- (Continued on Page 11). offer (now withdrawn) made by ment's present objective

After having been bitten by a a patriotic Englishwoman to pro- civilian population is inclined to widow, Lau Ying-tal, was admit- and optimistic view, never heel

A dog in Shanghai Street, a Chinese ways had smooth sailing. vido £200,000 for the aerial pro comfort itself with the thought ted to the Kowloon Hospital yes-tating to tection. of London: But he has that, in case of need, civil air-terday for treatment.

. take a at last, as Acting Prime Minia-craft can be turned into machines has since been sent to Mataukok was too great to be defeated.

courageous "TOO MUCH CHOPPER The dog

course, confident that her, cause ter, announced that during the of war, a notion probably streng- for observation.

FIGHTING." next five years. the Royal: Air thened by the Government's re- Force will be increased by 41 cent refusal to separate the ad- new squadrons.

Sentence of three months' hard The scheme ministration of civil aviation labour was imposed on Chan Ki,

has weathered financial storms as modest enough, in all from the purely military Air unemployed, by Mr.. E. W. Hamil devastating as those that have conscience. It means that not Ministry! eyen by 1998 will Britain possess which is not entirely a sound morning for the theft of a radia- causes which in such crisis have chopper fighting.

wrecked countless great business the theory ton at the Central Magistracy this enterprises, and yet the very, as many first-line machines As one, scarcely applies to Great tor cap, the property of Yick Ting, are owned at this moment by Britain, where the civil air lines a lorry driver of No. 102 Codepleted the Army's income were uses a chopper is really a potential

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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

France, Russia, Italy, and Japan are so slow-running, to take one naught Road West. And where is each of these likely example only, at little more than

to stand by 1988?

half the speed of the air ser Only that type of idealist vices in the United States For whose proper name is "unrealist" fighting in the air, speed is as

Personal Pars

Always Optimistic

But she has ever had the long

In the past four years of world-

wide economic collapse the Army

Never does she lose sight of

Stern, Warning Given By Magistrate.

"There is for too much of this Anyone who

fresponsible for a four hundred murderer," said Mr. E. I. Wynne per cent. increase in the demands Jones when charging Sze Muk, a made upon it-thne, for instance, 22-year-old box-maker, at the in the last fiscal year alone 15,- Kowloon Magistracy this morning 000,000 applications for ald were for cutting and wounding Sze Lung Hing, a 34-year-old box maker, at

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considers there is, anything essential as it is at sea. By pro Mr. W. J. Keates, attached to the received. alarmist in studying this serious perly preparing for her own vital Editorial Staff of the Hong Kong But the ability of the Comman- No. 182 Apliu Street. and inevitable question. If any necessities. Britain will even Telegraph, accompanied by his wife der for shaping affairs, to the Inspector Shaftain stated that one thinks the danger an imagin- tually make herself as reasonably and family. is leaving for England needs of the Army" was only stl-both the men worked in the same ary, or at least an exaggerated safe as a country can be made on the N.Y.K. liner Fushimi Maru mulated by the urgency of such shop, but were

friendly one,, he should turn his mind against attack from above, on September 15.

situations...

terms. On August 8 the defendant back to some of the events of the Other leading nations have al

She made an extensive tour of overheard the complainant critising war. The censorship at the ready done so, and Britain has Among the passengers leaving on the United States to confer per- his work, so he hit the complainant time prevented a full knowledge too long been content to lag be the ms. Fulda are Mias Marjorie sonally with bankers and business on the back of the neck with a of what was happening, and the hind them. The Prime Minister White of the Hong Kong and Shang-men. She realigned her financial chopper,

public memory is amazingly himself recently urged the peo-hal Hotels, and Miss M. McGrann of fronts, and, among other things Mr. Wynne Jones: "If the ent short-lived. On June 18, 1917, a ple to become "air-minded", the Bank Line Ltd. They are rallied her officers in a voluntary had been a little further forward German bombing squadron car. But air-mindedness is use taking the round trip to Japan and movement to accept with her sub you would have cut sa artery, and ried out a most successful and less without material. Not ports.

stantial reductions in their al- he may have bled to death, Bad disastrous raid on London. The too soon, but in truth somewhat

ready mengre salaries, so that the he bled to death you would have east, north, and south of the belatedly, is the Government Mr. Chan Kal secretary to the Armyrmight carr ginto been charged with murder.” metropolis were visited, and facing a part of its heavy resSouth-West Governmen arrived in the front ranks of the war-on, de Sentence of six months hundred and twenty-six bomba ponsibilities.

chart! the Colony last

pression,

fabaur was imposed.