Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-05
SALVATION ARMY
FIGHT CONTINUES
Both Camps Planning Strait
coy in Commander-in-
Chief Battle.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, January 5.-Both camps OF
the Salvation Army were busy yesterday
planning strategy in advance of what
is already being called the Battle of
Sunbury" which is to begin when the
high council of the organization meets
at that place next Tuesday.
London newspapers said that the fol-
lowers of Gen. Bramwell Booth, who
faces the possibility of being deposed
as, commander in-chief have prepared
bombshell to be hurled into the ranks
of the reform element, led by Comdr
Evangeline Booth of the United States
Some interpreted this to mean that the
general would resign when the council
convenes thus forestalling vote de-
claring him physically unfit to continue
in Office But this was not confirmed
at international headquarters. One
prominent official there said:
IF the general has made any such
decision. we have heard nothing about
it,"
Course Seen Nullified.
Against the resignation report an
official of Miss Booths party pointed
out that this course would veto the
generals right to choose his successor,
something to which his family has
chung as an inalienable prerogative of
the mmander-in-chief. The same
commentator also argued that re-
Signation would throw away the gen.
erals chance of being adjudicated fit
to carry on. In the latter event the
council would be automatically dis
solved and his nomination of sue
cessor would stand.
Another theory as to the purposes of
the Gen. Booth faction is that he in
tends to make a personal appearance at
the high council meeting. Unless,
however, his illness has been exag-
gerated, such dramatic move would
be unlikely. Some of his supporters,
however, admitted that If the council
sit long enough, the general might be
sufficiently recovered to attend meet
ing if he were summoned to Sunbury
The commander-in -chief is not a
member of the high council and there
fore he could address the delegates only
by consent of the council or en- its
summons.
1t was understood that the council
would DE given doctors certificate
next Tuesday describing the nature OF
the commanders illness. There was a
feeling in reformist quarters that If this
certificate is not satisfactory to them
a medical opinion should be obtained
from some other source.
Would Hold Whip Hand.
Should Bramwell Booth be adiudi.
Gated fit to continue in Office. he WOULD
have several methods available for
checkmating further attempts to change
the constitutional method of choosing a
leader. Be resigning Immediately he
would place his nominee at the head OF
the army. Or he could wait until the
councillors had returned to their posts
and then resign. BY this method he
would increase the difficulty of second
assemblage to tackle the question from
another angle.
Evangeline Booth passed a quiet day
at her hotel headquarters after a week
OF long conferences. Some of these
lasted far into the night and were re.
sumed early the next morning.
The last four American delegates ar
rived tonight. All delegates from dis
tant parts of the world now are in Lon.
don. Councillors from continental
Europe will arrive over the week end.