NEW KITCHENER STORY.
WHO WAS THE LADY?
Au interesting ul the beginning of the motor-ambulanco service attached to the British army was told by Sir Arthur Stanley at a re-union of arabulinc9 driven at the Connaught Booms (London) says the Pall Mall Gazette. "We had recourse, he said, to the aid ••f a lady of great influence, who a'lnouoc<*d her intention of going into Lord Kitchener's room at tho War OtSce and not leaving it until we get permission to so. She kept her word as Indies always do.—(Laughter). " The result was a half-ilicel of paper •*itb the most astonishingly ungrammaticai message, signed by Lord Kitchener, uu the right to search for tho wounded so long as we kept far away fruni the front line, and hating got that order, we promptly destroyed it."—(Laughter:.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1210, 3 December 1919, Page 6
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134NEW KITCHENER STORY. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1210, 3 December 1919, Page 6
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