THE COFFIN CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 August 1926, Page 7

THE COFFIN CASE.

POWER'S NEWSPAPER STORIES

GOVERNMENT RETICENCE.

EXPLANATION BY "REFEREE. ,

CBy Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.}

(Received 10.30 a.m.) i LONDON, August 22. The '"Referee,'' which, published Power's Kitchener articles, in a leader, says: "'Rumours and suspicions regarding Kitchener's death have been increased because successive Governments refused to disperse them by a plain statement of the truth. Power offered to undertake, on his own responsibility, at his own expense, an investigation of Kitchener's death, the 'Referee , paying ordinary journalistic rates for the articles. His remuneration for the most startling would not have covered his return fare to Norway. We still think the best course was to allow Power to state his case, which resulted in drawing from the Admiralty a statement which should have been issued a decade ago. Power must now prove, if he can, the statements that he found what he believed to be Kitchener's remains, which were coffined and conveyed to England."

The '"Referee" adds that it does not credit the suggestion that the authorities were privy to the allesed abominable substitution. — (Sydney "Sun.")