Kitchener’s Tragic End
HAMPSHIRE STRUCK MINE. LAID BY U 75. London, Dec. 22. M.r AV. C. Bridgeman. First Lord of the Admiralty, in the House of Commons, read a written reply from Waterhouse apropos of recent statements. The reply said it was untrue that, the sailing of the Hampshire with Kitchener for Russia was an open secret. The ship was not selected till ten days before she sailed and her course was not fixed till the last moment. No mines had previously been reported to have been laid near the Orkneys, but the Admiralty had no doubt that the Hampshire foundered as a result of striking a moored mine laid by U 75 in preparation for Jutland. Furthermore, Scheer’s report of the battle showed that U 75 had been in that area. A statement that spies had previously been shot aboard the Hampshire was a wicked fabrication.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 11, 24 December 1925, Page 5
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