KITCHENER’S BODY

Wairarapa Age, 9 August 1926, Page 5

KITCHENER’S BODY

an Alleged discovery. BUSIED IN NORWAY. ‘ DETAILS OF IDENTIFICATION. The discovery of the late Lord Kitchener’s h#dy buried in Norway is claimed by a free-lance journalist. The body is to be conveyed to London and placed at the disposal of the nation. (Received Sunday, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, August B.—The Kitchener mystery has developed a new phase, a lawyer, who, having investigated the elainrs of Frank Power, a free lance journalist, that he has discovered and brought to England Kitchener’s body, announces, in his opinion, that the evidence is sufficient to justify a judge making a declaration that the body is Kitchener’s. Power states that he always believed the winds and currents would have carried Lord Kitchener ’s body to Norway, where many victims were washed up. A systematic search of the coast was conducted to learn whether any unidentified body resembling K ; tehen er’s had been found. Fishermen reported in the summer of 1916, a tall, well-built officer, wearing an unusual greenish-khaki uniform, much berib boned, corresponding to Kitchener’s, was washed up on the coast. Power thereupon visited Norway and found 4i the grave which the local tradition indicated was Kitchener’s. A wooden coffin covered the remains of a wellmfide, tall man, bearing a mark on the skull, a peculiarity of the teeth, and a uniform all similar to Kitchener’s. Power states these characteristics pref elude the possibility of it being anyone else. The remains were transferred to a coffin, which Power says, was mace by the Government for Kitchener in 1916, and brought direct to England. Power’s search for the body extended over three years, and was carried -out under circumstances of great difficulty, but with encouragement from the late Earl’s relatives and friends.— (A. and N.Z.) FOUND BY FISHERMEN. R ‘rower describes his search. (Received Sunday, 11.45 p.m.) < LONDON, August B.—Mr. Power states that the substance of his conversation with two men, L. Johansan and H. Iversen, was that during the war they occasionally found bodies on the shore of south-western Norway at Egersund and that at Hidra, south of Egersund, they found the body of a tall man, terribly bruised about the bead. His uniform was much torn, within a few yards of the spot where the body was found the remains of a British sailor from the Hampshire were officially acknowledged on a sailor’s

tomb. At other points on the coast mother bodies of sailors from the Hampshire were found. Power stated he was depending on very dear marks of discovered when he examine the body, as follows: “Fine stature; mark of old wound on skull, which corresponded with one Kitchener was known to have received; his dental work which corresponds with a description from Kitchener’s dentist; in eertain places there were scraps of fabric still clinging to the body, with scraps of braid and ribbon, which checked with the description of Kitchener’s tailor. “My final plans are naturally incomplete. Upon the arrival to-day of the body in London, it will be met with all due respect and reverence and •eenveyed to a suitable mortuary. The coffin will be covered with a large Union Jack sent to me for the purpose titled lady. I shall immediately notify accredited representatives of the British Government that the remains of Kitchener are in my possessA, and are at the disposal of the JEion.”—(Sydney “Sun.”)