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TWENTY YEARS AFTER-
SED as they were to a succession of shocks and horrors, few events in the war staggered
U the nation as did the death of Lord Kitchener, at the time Secretary of State for War.
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On June 5, 1916, while on his way to Russia in H.M.S. Hampshire, an armoured cruiser, the ship struck a mine off the Orkney Islands, between the Brough of Birsay and Marwick Head.
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She sank in a few minutes. Nearly 800 officers and men and Lord Kitchener and his staff were drowned. There were only twelve survivors.
How Kitchener
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belonging to the Iron Duke,
By Petty-Officer St John Jellicoe's Magship, which,
WILFRED WESSON
THERE was a flutter of excitement on board H.M.S. Hampshire on the morning of June 5, 1916.
with other ships of the Grand Fleet, was moored in Scapa Flow.
Nearer came the pinnace, and in a few moments 1 was able to dis- a number of khaki-clad
tinguish
figures in the boat.
And then, as she drew even closer, the figure of Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War.
suddenly recognised among them
The vast import of the unexpected The famous armoured cruiser Admiralty orders for the Hampshire had only returned to the great to stand by for a "mission" flashed war-time naval base of Scapa on mo.
was to undertake, Flow two days before, after with the great soldier aboard. gruelling operations the felt a thrill of prito at the signal
honour conferred on the ship. Battle of Jutland,
at
re-
Died
The Ship
>
Rolls Over
We were now away from the Hanrpshire. Boats, stl crammed with men, hung from her derricks.
And then, with a fearful kind of alow lurch, the ship rolled over.
I closed my eyes. It was un- bearable.
An unaccountable fascination made.
me open them.
There was not much left of the Hampshire.
And into the vortex of her last Komersaulting plunge were
boats, men and wreckage.
drawn
The Hampshire had disappeared
miles from
two
wave
raised us we
shore.
When a
could see the
wink of a light or two on the rocky
Orkney mainland.
Should we ever reach there 7
Men on our raft were dying with appalling swiftness.
The pinnace was now alongside, Her crew had scarcely
She rose and fell on the heavy well covered from the rigours of that that surged through Scapa Flow that memorable twelve-hour encounter day. A wild wind blow, from the with the German fleet. The din north-east and the water was tur of battle still rang in their ears, bulent.
Captain Herbert J. Sevill, the cup- The strain of high-pressure war-
tain of the Hampshire, stood at the
The fierce hias of escaping steam. The water was icy cold. The fare showed in their eyes.
top of the gangway to greet Lord And here were Admiralty or Kitchener as he came aboard followed The aluler of rushing water. The strain and exposure were proving
confused trample of feet above. too much for them. The engagement is announced between dera to stand by for a mission" by a considerable party.
Shouting. Urgent shouting.
Old Tom Jennings-a grey and Gwendoline Beatrice, eldest daugh- the nature of which none but the There were his personal militury There was a rather alarming slant grialed gamer-siarted a song. It Lieul-Colonel Mr. and Mrs.
A about the floor of the messroom was "Tipperary." He poured it with Lakeman, B3, King's Park Man-captain knew.
Fitztierald, Mr. H. J. O'Beirne, of There alike were Ofers and men
and been many that night, a fierce if pathetic display of bravado. nian, Kowloon, and Geoffrey Hope Urett of the local office of speculating on the next move of the Foreign Office. Sir F. Donald But this one didn't seen to be right. Some of us, half-heartedly, foined in
Mr. L. 5 Robert- the Hampshire.
son, of the Ministry of Munitions, ing itself. Was another engagement with the Detective MacLaughlin, of Scotland. enemy imminent?
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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1936.
A TRADITIONAL
ROLE
have
Italian commentators been suggesting ulterior motives in the succour which Britain is!
wns
ր there to be
NEW
secretary,
son
and
disposition of the naval forces that Refused To
was to take the ship from her land- Feked retreat in the Orkneys to some other stronghold?
Jack Jackson's Dorchester Hotel Orchestra affording to hit run NOTES OF THE DAY
0.
Then the Bghts flickered out. We made for the deck,
Postpone Journey was a lot of water in the corridors.
Gushing water.
In Gale
the chorus.
He stood up in the midst of this
Some had still a spark of life in
They were clinging to lifebelts and pieces of wreckage. There was the look of final despair on their up- turned faces.
It took a long time to get there. raging orren and deliberately Rang ... fareweil Leicester- The only open
hatchway was aft. It again, There square." The messroom was forward,
Tom Jennings slipped to the bot tom of the raft, and the water closed In the unaccountable Way that There was a great deal of excit over him. Some whispered that the mission
Gradually we were being swept to- leak out le soon became able congestion at the companion- concerned the transportation of a secrets
wmong the crew that the ways. I came up on to the half- wards the Orkney canst. Ingh official on a secret and in known
at the destination
VOYLKE was deck. They were saying that the An hour passed. Another. It was
mine. It twilight. partant voyage.
Archangel and the object of the Hampshire had struck But that was rumour.
conference between Kit- hnd exploited on the port side of her
Forty-three men had died on the A bailer and Shortly after four o'clock that mission
Taft. There were only four of us afternoon the mystery was partially chener and Russian war chiefs at the foremost engine-room.
of the Emperor invitation
on the ben burs!. cleared up.
But the Hampshire was well down left.
a little to We had passed a score of floating I saw a pinnace steaming across atter of the reorganisation of the
It was a pin- latter's military forces and discus- by the head. Heeling the Flew towards us.
sion of a scheme for the increased starboard, too. Men were hurrying bodies.
to their bont stations. Some were output of munitions.
Lord Kitchener lunched with Sir already there. The boats were fill them,
ing. I was in charge of the Carley Jehn in the Iron Duke
And, despite the vital character raft stations to starbonni. of his mission, Sir John had tried hard to persuade him to postpone blk Orders Lost
Itussin. BD-337 The Town Talks-Piano Medley Vivian Ellis (Pianist)
peror of Ethiopia, who has now
The bagpipes noise nuisance visit
Beyond the land-locked harbour in BD-338 Rominiscences of Frimi-Paramount Theatre Organ
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It has taken Cheshire Magistrates which lay the Hampshire the suns interprets the visit as a success-five sittings to reach a final judg-around the Orkneys were raging.
Sir John thought it would be mad BD-336 Songs of Songs (Moyal (Piano Accordeon)
George Scott-Wood ful move by the sanctionist ele- ment. Three neighbours of a pipe news to face such a
There seemed to be dieulty in Very little, it appeareil, for above
the borts. per- lowering always came before ment in the British Cabinet and player had complained that his Kitchener was samant.
our straining eyes there arose, al- Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (Herbert)
playing was excessive, unreason-
were electrically con most sheerly, tier upon tier of jagged George Scort-Wood
Trolled, and the current had failed. rocks. Renara (Pianist} } in other political spheres which able, unnecessary, and injurious to sonal comfort and safety with this course they
health. Gershwin Medley
Could we now in this exhausted The wind howled. Homensurable support these penalties, to re-
The Magistrates have ruled that Humpahi weighed anchor, and by banks of waves burst in shivering state, negotiate those
heights? tard the development of better the complaint is justified; that the five o'clock was under way steaming cascades over the decks.
Now they had managed to lower It looked utterly impossible.
Now one of the boats, It and fifty men
we had been drawn away What playing of pipes in a dwelling con- towards Hoy Sourd, the western exit
from Scapa Flow. Liiguous to others is a noise nui-
Because of the heavy pale blow in it. I could met get away from from the coast by the recession of sance, and therefore to be resing from the north-east it had been the ships Tones were eut. ---- "a "glant" wave; now an incoming-roller
A wave sucked it sharply to its flung us towards it again. The restriction may be decided to follow the west coast of
Häpe replenished our failing Hevere, for the pastime the Orkneys northwards and thence crest.
Next minute it was swept against strength, and with a daring born of years' standing to give pratec- tu Le confined 1 four make for Russia.
Shortly after the Hampshire was the Hampshire's side with terrific anal fight against despair I clutched week for periods of
Stromness into the open force. rounding days ́u
a jagged point of rock. Nothing but a tangled mass of The sen drew the raft not more than twenty minutes a sea.
Away. I bodies struggling for survival among was alone. me between the hours of 6.30)
a swirling lotsam,
Wave after wave hurled itself at .m. and 8.30 p.m. So, like a wise In Teeth Of
And then Lord Kitchener came on me. 21:20, the piper will take to the
deck. hills and the woods.
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tempest.
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At a few minutes
:
to
With a jolting grind the iron grating of the raft caught on a I hurried to my position. There submerged rock.
They were orders being shouted..
The const was only a few yards were mostly caught in the gale and away. And yet were we much bet- But 104:
ter off?
five the
some of
He looked grave and calm.
treacherous
to
I never thought I should be able hold out against their terrible battering,
way
tion to distressed royal person- ages. The task is disinterested and humanitarian.. Moreover
Terrific Gale the visit is being made at the
Faithfully following in her wake Emperor's own request. In this
I had a curious thought. It was like two watchful dogs were the
that he looked as though he might As they broke and the water re-
th little case, it would have been-highly might be objected that these destroyers Unity and Victor.
hours were inadmissible if the Now the ship was in the very have appeared at that moment, not redel i serambled culpable to have allowed the neighbours had children, for these teeth of the most terrific gale in my for self-preservation, but regretfully further up the precipice.
I was now numbed with the cold. It a proud vessel. round to north-west. Negus to fall into the hands of are the hours in which all well-experience. The wind had suddenly to inspect the irreparable damage to
ordered children are put to bed. veered
But an oflicer shouted, "Make way My limbs felt like lead. My hands.
were bleeding.
The salt water in the lacerated his enemies. The Italians may But in this instance no mention whipped the sea to a fury.
It moaned shrieked in her for Lord Kitchener," and the men rigging. Mountainous sens swept who stood around made a passage flesh was as red-hot needles searing make him the butt of their has been made of children, and in
that case a special pica would)
He was close to my station now At last the racks were less steep. All hatchways but one were bat
was near the top. Five more derision; to the British people have to be nut forward if gimi her decks in great frothing sheets. among themselves.
He was talking in turn to two naval I he is a fit subject for sympathy.lar dlapute arose in some other toned down.
The destroyers fell lunck, unable officers, one on either side of him. yards.
He was in khaki. He was katless.
The surface of the ground above. to brave the storm. They became
me I was frantically "clawing was During the war, he did not
bearing flat
I had reached it. I sank to the ground exhausted.
spare himself, and it is only fair
place.
It
The
Bridge
The Hampshire had heeled much further to starboard
it.
I might have remained there half an hour, an hour, two.
I didn't think of time. I was saved.
There was a light ahead. I roke. But my knees Immediately gave
And then Lord Kitchener turned Again I staggered up and fell. I gave up, and lying flat face down- way acros5 to him wards I wriggled my back,
The cuplain had called
The question whether bagpipes mere specks on the livid horizon. He wore no overcent.
Scarlet shoulder-straps should be played anywhere but in They disappeared, And still the to assume that he would never uninhabited reglons may be set good ship Hampshire ploughed on, the insignia of rank gleamed. Close-
aside and discussion directed to battling with the elemental foes at ly, he looked tired and worn. have left his country had the the large question, of whether the every few yards.
To starboard was the iron const Called On To of the Orkneys, local thiefs remained loyal and uncontrolled playing of any musi.
cal instrument is not a nuisance. I could see the waves fucking its his troops been capable of effec- What of a learner of the piano, or gaunt bleakness na they broke on tive resistance to the invaders, the violin, or the cornet, praetis- jutting crags.
At intervala great towers of jar- our modern ing within one of
the skyline-immutable sentinels of As events turned out, the defen- dwellings where even the human red binek rocks rose sheerly against
tite melancholy scene.
to come up to the forebridge. He a feld towards the light. A crofter's ders were unable to save their voice penetrates the walla?
may be that the Cheshire Magis- The conflicting sounds of rushing mounted the ladder. I saw the exp. dwelling. I best on the door with native land from the might of trates decision will raise a chorus water and sercaming wind were tain's boat being hoisted. That was the heel of my boot.
The deer was opened. I fell across suddenly parcel by the shamper note the last I saw of Lord Kitchener, the Italians, which, after all, is er complaints.
of the super hugle.
There was little doubt now that the threshold in a state of collapse.
They put me to bed. There were It kwelled and faded as the squall the Hampshire was doomed. not surprising. There was fear,
blankets and hot-water bottles, She listed still further. after the Emperor left, that dis-grateful for the protection ne termented its shrill endences.
I went down to my messroom for
Clouds of leam were emerging shivered for hours.
My wounded hands were, bandaged. from her foremost engine room on aster might overtake the foreign corded. This work of rescue, supper.
They still show the scars of their the starboard side, What about Leicester-square colony in the Ethiopian capital like the according of succour to
night?" sighed Tom Leach, who. Men were now jumping into the laceration. -
Two days later the Admirally made water from the quarterdeck. Some before the Italians arrived to the Negus, is also a British like myself. hailed from London. restore order, but thanks to the tradition. We count it a pri- meditaively, a far-away look in his Others showed wounds that bled,
He munched his bread and cheese of them had been badly scalded. -arrangements for the survivors to be transferred to a hospital ship at There was a rush to my raft. We Scapa Flow. part played by the British Lega-vilege to perform such services, eyes.
There were cleven besides myself Then Samuel Sweeny started a cat the lashings and managed to tion staff and guard in the rescue knowing also that other nations
conversation on the passible pre launch it. Forty or fifty crowded on who had miraculously clambered up of the foreign communities, a would do likewise in similar sence of U-boats on our course. He and several of un paddled in a frenzy those precipitous rocks.
ehouted down. Then
Scores of others were dashed to mines. of haste
to get clear of the fast-
pieces on crags. Wreckage of boats. justifiable source of pride to all circumstances. Thanks to the was.
But kome one had heard that the sinking ship. concerned, the worst was pre-worldwide nature of British coast had been swept.
As we drew away several of the was washed ashore as far south as. injured leaped on the raft into our Aberdeen.
Pieces of the captain's boat wore wanted. The forethought where-responsibilities, our opportuni-
midst.
I shall never forget their agonised identified: by a force of Sikhs was sent to ties for such humanitarian inter- Kitchener Comes
On Deck
An Admiralty inquly was held. screams as the salt water, washed
Survivors were summoned to it. Addis Ababa was abundantly vention are and have been more
And it was at this very moment their wounds,
away. A It was conclusively proved that. justifled by subsequent events. abundant than those of other
We were fifty yards that above the treble whine of the
Waist-deep in creaming the Hampshire struck a mine, and Indeed, had it not been for this countries. But they are will-gale there imposed itself the deeper hundred.
surf. Tossed wither and thither on it was practically certain, that these small but efficient unit, grave ngly accepted and discharged, ominous note of an explosion.
The ship lurched.
the waves. Whirled with maelstrom had been laki the wock before by the German aulanarine U76 as a consequences might have result- and the case of the visit of the There was a "dreadful grating fierceness.
A good mEY were almost im- preliminary to the operation of the noise somewhere in the bowels of
thirty-six mines. delicato mochamiam of machinery. the fury of the water.
ed to the thousands of foreigners Negus to England is merely an the vessel-like flinte lung into the modiately awopt from the raft by enemy's fleet at Jutland. 176. laid
who must have been profoundly other illustration of the fact.