"ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT"

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2272, 5 October 1914, Page 6

"ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT"

REPORT OF KITCHENER'S PROPHECY (Rec. October. A, 11.20 p.m.) Melbourne, October 4. The Defence Department cabled to Sir Geo. Reid (Commonwealth High' Commissioner) asking if Earl Kitchenor's cabled statement that tho war was unlikely to last long was correct. Sir Geo. Reid replied that tho statement attributed to Earl Kitchener was absolutely incorrect. London now) cables that Eari Kitchener's statement was taken from the "Globe's" report of a farewell gathering to Territorials at which a captain repeated want Earl Kitchener said whon inspecting thorn.

Tho Paris correspondent of the "Motor" writes: —Two or three cars stood in front of tho Ministry of War as I drove along tho Boulevard St. Germain. There was a small group of idlers, but nothing in the way of excitement, no* demonstration. A voice hailed me. Its owner was Victor Rigal, winner of the' Three-litre Grand Prix for Sunbeam. "The shooting season has opened a month earlier than usual," remarked tlie race driver with a quiet chuckle. "Thoy called us up yesterday—Boillot, Goux,. and myself—together with our caTs. Wo have 18 h.p. Peugeots. Boillot is driving General Joffro; 1 am chauffeur for another general; haven't oven hoard his name yot. Goux has been sent to Bolfort. It h rather a chango from the battle at Lyons, n'est co pas? Nearly all wo raco drivers liavo received the call. Jean Chnssagno is in a naval fort near Marseilles; Guyot is driving a motor-van; Hemcry is in the Navy; Wagner has been called for tho flying corps." Joo Graham, a Brighton police pensioner, who died at the ago of 81, was tho last of the "Snuff'Box-Brigade." He would stand in the Royal Pavilion grounds and offer, snuff to passers-by with whom ho \va-a acquainted. Ho Bumy. a coin, iu, this, w&j;<