HOW KITCHENER DIED.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 552, 29 December 1925, Page 5

HOW KITCHENER DIED.

OONTROVKRSY REV IYED. SURP RTS INC ALLEG AT lONS (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). London, Dec. 27. Air Frank Power, writing in the Referee, asserts that Mr \V. W. Bridgeman, the First Lord of the Admiralty, made a futile effort to evade the charges that 1. More -than 12 people survived the disaster to the armoured cruiser Hampshire, in which Lord Kitchener ami lii s staff were travelling to Russia, and .which, was lost off the 'Orkneys on June 5, 1916.

2. Kitchener escaped in a small boat, and survived for two nights atnl a day in an inaccessible part of the Orgney coast. 3. Kitchener’s body was found elsewhere.

4. An infernal machine exploded aboard tbe Hampshire. 6.—The navy was guilty of slackness in sending rescue parties.

Air Power declares that the Germans were aware of Kitchener’s mission sufficiently in advance of the Hampshire’s departure to lay 31 mines in the vicinity of the Orkneys, inscribed: “Goth strafe Kitchener.’

Air Bridgeman failed to disclose that a ttrawler was mined and sunk in the Hampshire’s path three days before the disaster.