KITCHENER’S HEART
MELBA RELATES AN INCIDENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. | LONDON, December 31. Writing in the “Weekly Despatch,” Madame Melba says: “If anybody tells me Kitchener had no heart I have, an answer ready.” Giving an authorised version of an incident at Government House, Melbourne, when Lord Kitchener attended the Goveriior-Genenal’s dinner, she states that the GovernorGeneral, the State Governor, and Lord Kitchener pretended to kneel before her. When she said she wfuld not sing, Lord Kitchener , replied': ‘Madame, I have been an exile for eight years. Sing just a verse of ‘Home, Sweet Home.’ ” She complied, and Lord Kitchener, with tears rolling down his cheeks, kissed her hand.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11408, 3 January 1923, Page 5
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110KITCHENER’S HEART New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11408, 3 January 1923, Page 5
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