BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.] KITCHENER MYSTERY. STATEMENT bF "REFEREE.” (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON. August 22.

The “Referee,” which published Power’s Kitchener articles, in a leader says the rumours and suspicions regarding his death have been increased because successive Governments have refused to disperse them by a plain statement of the truth. Power offered to undertake, on his own responsibility, at his own charges, the investigation of Kitchener’s death, the “Referee” paying ordinary journalistic rates for articles. The remuneration for the most startling would not have covered the return fare to Norway. We still think the best course was to allow Power to state his case, which resulted in drawing from the Admiralty a statement which should have been issued a decade ago. Power must now prove, if he. can, the statements that he found what he believed to he Kitchener’s remains, which were coffined and conveyed to England. The “Referee” adds that it does not credit the suggestion that the authorities were privy to the alleged abominable substitution.

wilful damage. LONDON. Aug. 2ft. The Times’ Berlin correspondent says deaths resulting from the' railway smash at I.ehrte now total 21, including two English women. Investigations .show that the rail holts were loosened and fish plates detached. A tobacco pipe and tools were found nearby. TNVTTATrON TO PREACH. LONDON. Aug. 22. An Australian, Doctor F. IV. Norwood (Pastor of die City Temple) Ins accepted an invitation to preach at the Church Coingress at. Southampton. This is the first time such an invitation has been extended to Nonconformists.