KITCHENER STORY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 August 1926, Page 5

KITCHENER STORY

MR POWER’S POSITION.

ALLEGED SUBSTITUTION CLAIM SHOULD BE PROVED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT Received 10.25 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 22. The Referee, which published Power’s Kitchener articles, in a leader says: “Rumours and suspicions concerning Earl Kitchener’s death had been increased because successive Governments refused to disperse them by a plain statement of truth. Mr. Power offered to undertake, on his own responsibility and at liis own charges, an investigation of Kitchener’s death, the Referee paying the ordinary journalistic rates for the articles. The remuneration, even for the most startling news, would not have covered the return fare to Norway. We still think the best course was to allow Mr. Power to state the case which resulted in drawing from the Admiralty the statement which should have been issued a decade ago. Mr. Power must now prove, if he can, the statements that he- found what he believed to be Earl Kitchener’s remains, which were placed in a coffin and conveyed to England.” The referee adds: “It does create a suggestion that the authorities were privy to the alleged abominable substitution.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.