KITCHENER AND PALMISTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 240, 7 October 1916, Page 13

KITCHENER AND PALMISTRY.

" I KNOW I SHALL 818 AT SEAV'

INDICATIONS OF THE END.

On two occasions did the celebrated "Cheiro" read the hand of Lord Kitchener, the last occasion being in. July, 1894. That interesting- meeting between "Cheiro" and Lord Kitchener forma the subject of a special article in the current number of the " Strand Magazine." "It was (writes ' Cheiro , ) on the 21st ■July, 1894, I had the honour of meeting Lord Kitchener, and obtaining, an auto" graphed impression of -his right hand. The day I had this important interview the late Lord Kitchener, or, as he was then, Major-General Kitchener, was at the War Office. To take this impression I had to employ the paper lying on hie table, and, strange as it may appear to those who read symbols, the imprint of the War Office may be seen at the top of the second finger—the finger known for ages as that of Fate—in itself perhaps a premonition that he would one day be the guiding hand in that great department in the most terrible war that up to now has threatened the destiny of Britain. " Lord Kitchener "was at the moment of my interview Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, and had returned to England to tender his resignation oil account of some hostile criticism over "the Abbas affair." His strong-willed action was a few weeks later completely vindicated. He was made a K.C.M.G., and returned ito Egypt with more power than ever, and not long afterwards brought the Egyptian campaign to a successful close. HIS PATH OF DESTINY. In the light of what has happened the I subjoined extracts from " Cheirp's" articles will he read with interest:— "He was then forty-four years of age, and I remember well how I explained' the still higher positions and responsibilities that his path of Destiny mapped out before him. The heaviest and greatest of all would, I told him, he undertaken in his sixty-fourth year (1914), but how : little either of us thought that in thafc war the most terrible war that England has ever engaged in would have broken out! '"Tell mc what you like,' he said, that morning of July, 1894, ' as long as the end is some distance off,' and yet, when I pointed out to him, that the cix, the eight and the five' were the most important numbers in his life, as quickly as the late King Edward worked out from my figures that sixty-nine was likely to f be the end of his life, and joked with mc and others about it afterwards; so Kitchener, with perhaps the same mysterious flash of intuition, called my attention to the fact that, when he would be sixty-six, the sixes indicated at the date of birth would for the first time come together, and also in a year (1916) whose Number of Destiny made the total of an eight. 'Strange, isn't it,' he laughed, 'but is there any indication of the kind of death it is likely to be!' "' Yes/ I said, ' there are certainly indications, but not at all,. perhaps, the kind of end one would be likely to imagine would happen to you.* HIS DEATH WOULD BE BY WATER. "I then showed him, in as few words as possible, that, being born as he wae in what is called 'the Cusp of the first House of Air' in {the sign -of Gemini, and entering into the first House ' f Water, the Sign of Cancer, also Houa|s of the Moon and detriment of Saturntaking these - indications - together -'with .cabalistic interpretation of the numbers governing hie life and the position Jupiter would be in towards.his sixty-sixth year, his death would be by water, but 1 moist likely caused by storm at sea, with the attendant chance of some form of capture by an enemy and exile, from which he would never recover. "'Thanks,' he laughed, 'I prefer toe first proposition. , "'Yet,' he added, 'I must admit that what you tell mc about danger at sea makes a serious impression on my mind, and I want you to note down among your queer theories —but do not say anything about it unless some day you hear of my being drowned—that I made myself a good swimmer—and I believe I am a fairly good one—for- no other reason but that as far back as I can remember I have always had a queer feeling that water would be my greatest danger. "'Good-bye,' he said. 'I won't forget; and as, of course, you believe in thought transference and that eort of thing, who knows if I won't send you some eign, if it should happen that water claims mc at the last?" "That he did Temember is, I think, established by an Exchange Telegraph Company's message on June 19, mentioning that 'When Lord Kitchener came some three months ago to the British front, he met at Dunkirk Commandant de Balancourt, to whom lie mentioned that a ' Jack Johnson ' had dropped not far from him. 'That did not alarm me,' said the Field-Marshal, ' because I know I shall die at sea:'"