KITCHENER’S DEATH
CHARGES OF OFFICIAL
NEGLIGENCE
ALLEGED POLITICAL INTRIGUE London, January 17
Mr. Frank Power reiterates his elwrge that Lord Kitchener’s death was due to officially ordered negligence. He publishes a letter attributing to Colonel Oswald Fitzgerald, who perished with Kitchener, and said to have been written to a friend prior to their embarking on H.M.S. Hampshire. The letter asserted that Lord Kitchener was the centre of a disgraceful political intrigue, adding: "If we don’t return, foul play will probably have been the means of preventing us.”—Sydney “Sun” Cable. [Mr. Power, writing in the “Referee,” declared that the Germans were aware of Lord Kitchener’s mission sufficiently in advance of his departure to lay thirtv-four mines in the vicinity of the Orkneys. He said that the Navy was guiltv of slackness. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Dlr. Bridgeman, replying to questions in the House of Commons, said it was untrue that the sailing of the Hampshire was an open secret.]
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 7
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