THE KITCHENER MYTH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4579, 7 June 1917, Page 3

THE KITCHENER MYTH.

LEGEND THAT STILL SURVIVES

In various parts of England, notably in the west country, tiie unfounded conviction that Lord Kitchener is still alive is persistently prevalent. Among the far-fetched stories just now current, says a London paper of March 14, is one to the effect that tj>e woman in Bristol, whose son is a prisoner in Germany has received a- letter from him in which he writes: “K. is here; you will understand.” ' Another woman whose husband, it is declared, was in the Hampshire and whose death was reported among those who went down with the ship is alleged to have heard' from him from an internment camp inGermany. Meanwhile, she has been wearing widow’s mourning. In neither case, however, does it appear possible to identify the woman. Remembering the number of people who, earlier in the course of the war, saw troops of Russian .soldiers filling railway carriages starting from tin east coast of Scotland port bound for the Channel on their way to reinbice the British Forces in Franc*, Ave know that popular delusions have strange birth and long life.