KITCHENER MYTH

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 46, 23 August 1926, Page 9

KITCHENER MYTH

GOVERNMENT RETICENCE

BLAMED

PLAIN STATEMENT YEARS AGO

AVOULD HAVE PREVENTED.

SCANDAL.

(United l'ross Association.— Copyright.) (Sydney Sim Cable.)

(Received 23rd August, j.l a.m.)

LONDON, 22nd August.

'•The Referee," which published Power's Kitchener articles, in a loader, says: "Rumours and suspicions rogiirding the death of Lord Kitchener increased because successivo Governments refused to disperse them by a plain statement of tho truth, Mr. Power offered to undertake on his own responsibility and at his own charges tho task of investigating Lord Kitchener's death. The •'Referee' 1 was paying ordinary journalistic rates for the articles and the remuneration for the most startling would not have covered Mr. Power's return tare to Nor-

way. We still think the oest course was to allow Mr. Power to state his case, which resulted in drawing from the Admiralty a statement which should have been issued ton years ago. Mr. Power must now prove, if he can, his statements that he found what he believed to bo tho late Lord Kitchener's remains which he coffined and convoyed to England."

The "Referee" adds that it docs not credit the suggestion that the authorities wore privy to the alleged abominable substitution.