WAR SEER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

WAR SEER.

TOLD DAY OF DEATH. DAUGHTER'S STRANGE STORY. Speaking quietly, but with passionate sincerity, a dark-eyed girl described, in an interview, how her father three years ago prophesied the date of his own passing. The girl was Miss Cynthia Gornold, and her father was Walter Richard Gornald, of Montpelier Crescent, Brighton. Dr Gornold—as he was always known in Brighton—has been described as the prophet of the 20th century. He foretold accurately the date of the outbreak of war and also the day of the Armistice. Miss Gornold said:—"l. was my father's secretary, and I shared liis secrets. .Liiree years ago he told me that in 1929 his work would end. I knew that his prophecy would come true, and I faced the year with dread. Then, in July, he reminded me again that in December a shadow would be thrown across my path. My mother lay ill in b.ed. I thought at the time that dad had foreseen her death. The Death Thought. "I never realised that he had foreseen his own end. The year was nearly ended and father was still fit and well. i brushed the thought of death from my mind, and then when I stood by his deathbed a few days later I had to recall how he had told me he would die. Three years agp he knew of it, but he faced it bravely all this time. " Miss Gornold remarked on her father's prophecy of the exact date of the late war years before its outbreak. He foretold the series of earthquakes in 1927, she meutioned. ' "I knew when I was only a little girl that we should go to war with Germany in 1914," she said. "I was brought m> on the idea, for my father spoke of it often as the world's greatest disaster which was C °Miss Gornold stated that her father had been consulted by kings, princes, and Prime Ministers in times of peril, bhe told of great soldiers and sailors who had asked his advice before battle. ' Ihey trusted my father," she said. "They consulted him m confidence. I saw the letters these men wrote to him; . . ... "Many doubted his opinion, many gibed at his prophecies, but none could doubt his honesty," she pointed out. . "Since his death eminent men in all parts of the country have written to me They describe my father as the gieatest prophet of this age. They say that they feel better for having known him.