KITCHENER’S DEATH

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1932, Page 6

KITCHENER’S DEATH

SENSATIONAL STORY NOW TOLD"MASTER SPY ON WARSHIP." NEW YORK, .March 2. How the German espionage system is. alleged to have planned the sinking of the Hampshire on June 5, 1916. and the death of Lord Kitchener is related in "The Alan Who Killed Kitchener," which has recently been published in -New York.

The book, by Clement- Wood, is a. melodramatic version of the life of Fritz Jouber; Duquesne, _om> of the German master spies who operated against jhc Allies during the war. Air Wood is not content to routine

himself to officially authenticated details of Duquesne’s picturesque carom-, but portrays him as the ‘-daredevil hero" of a hundred and one lurin' adventures for which he was never given credit. According to Mr Wood. Duquesne was actually ill the llampisliire, impersonating a Russian conn I, when (Tie warship was sunk.

The author's story is that a Russian, nobleman. Count Boris Zakrevski, was sent to England on a secret mission to arrange for Kitchener's visit to Russia, The Germans, lie claims, go!; wind of this because a woman friend of Zakrevski's betrayed him. The- count was kidnapped and Duqm-siie went to lEnglaiid in his stead and embarked oil the Hampshire as a member of Kitchener's entourage. A delightful ingenuous slof-y' is told 1 1 v Wood of how Duquesne was to eoimnimicalc with German submarines. | Everything, -nt-eording to the story, won,*, to plan. The Hampshire was sunk and Duquesne in some remarkable way escaped on a raft to he rescued hv a liandv German submarine. 1 This and many sillier remai-kahie ploits are supposed to have been told , fo the author by Duquesne himself, j whom lie met in Martinique, w here Ihe master sp.v was posing as Major Reginald Ansoni. 1