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NO FOUL PLAY.

ADMIRALTY'S OFFICIAL

NARRATIVE.

A conclusive answer to the fantastic reports regarding Lord Kitchener's death in the cruiser Hampshire and his sup- posed secret burial on the Norwegian coast is given in the full and detailed offcial White Paper issued on August 9th by the Admiralty: "The Loga of the Hampshire on June 3th. 1916: Official Narrative" (Cmd. 2710,

Stationery Office, ed.).

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The tale that Lord, Kitchener's ap- proaching departure for Russia divulged by treachery to the Germans is disproved by facts. No one knew by what route he would go. Not until May 20th, 1916, was a secret telegram sent to the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet,

Admiral Jellicoe, directing him to detail acruiser to take the party from Scapa Flow to Archangel and to report the name of the vessel selected.... Admiral Jellicoe replied on May 27th proposing the Hampshire, and the Admiralty tele graphed the same day that the Hamp shire would be suitable.

Certainly not a breath of this informa- tion could have reached Liens Comman Jer Kurt Beitzen, of 75, when on May "COMPREHENSIVE POLICY29th, under orders from Scheer for the operations which the Germans were planning against our Grand Fleet and which resulted on May 31st June 1st in the battle of Jutland, he laid the mines. that ultimately tank the Hampshire, Ee had been several days out at sea and there had been no possibility of com- manicating with hire without the Ger man wireless being intercepted by the British.

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cannot be recognized.

Preposterous Legends.

The Hampshire's errand was not known

to her crew.

Stories that her repair was scamped or unduly hurried for any reason are; without any foundation-as it also the legend that it was known at the date of her refit that she would be commie- sioned to take Lord Kitchener to Rus- sia, the utter absurdity of which is indeed apparent from the dates them- selves.

Another story of an infernal machine in the magazine" is na baseless. There was no infernal machine on board, from

the evidence of the survivors and from the character of the explosion which de stroyed her.

Lord Kitchener was to arrive at Scapa in June 5th; he lunched with Admiral Jellicoe, and left about 4 p.m. that day for the Hampshire.

BUT A RESIDENT OF ENGLAND.

INCOME TAX LAW,

A curious position with regard to the taxing of a British subject who lived abroail for more than six months every year was revealed by an income-tax appeal brought by Mr. Louis N. Levene against assessments made on him for the period April, 100-April, 1996

The Special Commissioners had pre- viously held that although he only came, to England for four or five months in each of those years ho was resident and "ordinarily resident" in the United Kingdom and therefore liable to taxa- tion.

Mr. A. M. Latter, K.C.; for. Mr. Levene, said that he lived at Curzon Street, W., until 1918, when he disposed of his furniture and sold the lease of the house. Until December, 1920, he

lived in hotels in England. From Du cember, 1920, until January, 1925, he claimed to have lived abroad, as for seven or right months of each year he stopped at Monaco and at various hotels in France. He visited England at different times amounting in all to four or Sve

months in each year. "

Neither abroad nor in England did ha stay anywhere long enough to enable one to say that he had any particular home, and it was not until January, 1925, that he secured the lease of a fat in Park Palace, Monte Carlo, In France be, had paid the visitors' tax.

London Bank Account. Mr. Levene's visit to England were for the purpose of obtaining medical advice, to take part in certain Jewish religious observances, to visit the graves of his parents, and to deal with his in- come-tax affairs. He always kept a banking account in Louder..

Mr. Levene's income from British securities and possessions had been asses. sed and the Special Commissioners upheld those assessments.

Mr. Latter contended that as Mr. Levene had not, resided in England for more than six months he was exempt from taxation.

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Mr. Justice Rowlatt: If à man came home and went back to a remote part of Africa every year he would have two re- sidences 1-Yes.

A Wanderer.

In giving judgment for the Crown, with costs, Mr. Justice Rowlatt said that in speaking of residence in an area like the United Kingdom a man could quite clearly be resident in the United King. dom, although within the United King- dom he was a complete wanderer.

Several sailing orders had been given

The word "resident was no doubt to the captain of the Hampshire on the capable-of-some-ambiguity-For legal previous day. These orders directed purposes it was meant to describe the her to proceed by a route to the eart quality-of-a-pe-son-A-man-might be of the Orkneye and to maintain a speed of is knots. Weather permitting, two destroyers were to screen het. Route

No. 1).

But the route by which the cruiser was to leave the Orkneys was further considered by the Commanderiin-Chief and his staf on the day of her depar- ture. On that morning a strong north- easterly, gale was blowing up, and it seemed certain that a heavy sea would be encountered on the east side of the islands, and would prevent the escort ing destroyers from keeping up with the Hampshire at the speed at which she was ordered to proceed.

Alternativa Bontes..

There were two other ordinarily used routes to be considered. Following one of these the Hampshire would have passed through the Pentland Firth to. the westward as far as Cape Wrath and then proceeded north, past Sule Skerry Lighthouse. (Route No. 3.) The other was a route close to the western coast "of the islands, which was in frequent use by the Fleet colliers and storeships, hus was only rarely used by warships (Route No. 2.)

That morning the Commander-in- Chief received a report of the sighting by a patrol vessel of a submarine north- cast of Cape Wrath at 9.15 am, steer- ing west..

This news made No. 3 Route danger- ous, and only Route No. 2, close under the west coast of Orkney, remained. Lord Jellicoe chose it because:

At that date minelaying by enemy "submarines had been confined to waters well to the southward of the Firth of Forth, presumably because of their amal radius of action. Danger, from this source was therefore considered to be very remote.

Therefore the Hampshire left to follow stroyers, Unity and Fictor.

which date the admitted after the Gov. I this route, and picked up her two de-

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By the late afternoon, however, the gale had shifted from north-east to north and was rapidly increasing in violence. The destroyers almost as soon as they were in the open found difficulty in keeping up with the Hampshire in the teeth of the gale.

Destroyers Ordered Back. They were ordered to return because they only delayed the ship:

There is thus no foundation whatever for the impression conveyed by the official biographer of Lord Kitchener, doubtless unintentionally, that at this point the escort on their own respon- sibility left the Hampshiré. vyz The Hampshire went on alone, and at 7.40 or 7.45 was in a position about 13 miles from the shore.. From the accounts of survivors it appears that the ship had reduced speed to 13) knots, had all but one of her hatches battened down and secured with shores, and was taking heavy seas all over her.

resident in England and Scotland. although at the particular moment he was living in Paris.

A man could have two ordinary resid. ences, not because he was commonly to be found at those places but because in the ordinary course, of his life be acquired the attributes of residence in both those places.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER (T8, 1926

COST OF YALE.

SENIORS SPEND MOST BUT STUDY LEAST.

INTERESTING QUESTIONNAIRE.

The results of a questionnaire recently submitted to Yale students have been made known in part. Returns indicate the amount of time spent in studies, scholarship results, the income of parente white in, and students and expenses

The total cost of average college, education at Yale was shown to be $6,700.

The report showed that freshmen spend the least and that succeeding classes in- crease their expenditures.

The average freshman cost was estimated at $1,384; sophomore, $1,358; junior, 81,539, and senior, 81,518.

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WEALTH PREDOMINATES. The questionnaire revealed that 40 per cent. of the families whose sons are at and $50,000, 7 per cent. having more than Lale have an income of between $10,000 $50,000. Nearly 33 per cent. receive lesz than $3,000 a year, and less than 20 per cent. of the families have an income of from 83,000 to $10,000 a year.

A study of the relationship of the od cupation of parents to their family income showed that professional representation was the highest in the intermediate group and lowest at both extremes, while with business incomes the reverse was true..

The time reported as spent by the students in preparing class-room work ranged from two to 50 hours a week, with an average of 20.7 hours.

The" report gave an unexpected result when it dis closed that the students who spent the least time on their studies attained the highest standing. Figures revealed that the freshmen spend the most time on their lessons and that every succeeding class spends correspondingly leas, with the seniors studying the least.

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The average time spent by fresamen was shown as 23.3 hours, with an over- age in scholarship of 73.3 per cent The sophomores spent 20.8 hours a week and The juniora Averaged 76.4 in studies. averaged only 19.5 hours in weekly study, with their standing at 78.3 per cent. The seniors studied 18.3 hours a week, with their scholarship standing at 80.5 per

cent..

More than 1,500 responses to the 2,500 forms. sent out were returned. The re- plies were made optional, although most colleges which have adopted the ques- tionnaire to obtain vital information have made the response compulsory. THE QUESTIONNAIRE WELCOMED.

The student committee, endorsed by

movement and conducted the survey, re-

the Student Councils, who organised the ported that "the personnel survey has that student effectively demonstrated opinion and co-operation in such an undertaking can be obtained and are of ery genuinei value. Voluntary co-opera- tion from a substantial majority of all undergraduates in so elaborate and diff cult a questionnaire not only asaures reliability of the data as being truly representative but also conclusively chener to get into the boat, but did indicates that students are willing to not see the latter come to it. --

respond with intelligent and thoughtful interest to such an investigation."

Kitchener's Fale.

There was evidence that Lord Kit chener was conducted up to the quarter deck immediately after the explosion, the men standing aside to make way for him to pass, and that four military officers were subsequently seen walking on the quarter deck. Beyond this there is no evidence regarding the fate of Lord Kitchener or the members of bis mission. No survivor saw him in a bost, and stories that he got away from the ship and that he reached the shere are purely imaginary.

No survivors other than the 12 of whom particulars were published were saved:

The stories as to additional survivors are entirely imaginary. Among these imaginary survivors mention of the following has been noticed in the Press: An officer alleged to have been met by persons unnamed in South Africa, who owned to being a survivor from the Hampshire, but was under an oath of secrecy"; a man named Green, a servant of one of the officers on board"; & big artificer," alleged to have been a German spy. The Admiralty verdict is summed up thus:

The Hampshire was a suitable vessel to select for the conveyance of Lord Kitchener, and was in an entirely cf- tient condition; her route was carefully selected by the Commander-in-Chief, and his decision was a prudent one in the difficult circumstances of the moment; the loss of the ship was not due to treachery but to her striking one or more moored mines laid by the U57; these mines were not laid with any knowledge of the Hampshire's mis- sion or any intention of destroying a particular vessel or person; the only survivors from the Hampshire were one warrant mechanician and eleven men, of whom the full names and details were published at the time; there is no evidence that Lord Kitchener ever left the ship, and none of the survivors saw any boat with occupants get clear. As for the bodies recovered, only two of these were of Lord Kitchener's party, and both were found at ses the night of the disaster One was the body of Col. Fitzgerald, and it is quite untrue that it showed marks of feal plas-the alleged work of spies."?

Finally, states the narrative, it is! necessary to contradict the rumour that has recently been given currency to the effect that bodies of officers and men belonging to the Hampshire were sub- sequently washed up on the Scandina vian coast and that it is probable that Lord Kitchener's remains may have been buried there.

All the evidence goes to show that discipline on board was finely main tained Orders were given immediately after the explosion to abandon ship. The men went to their stations without sign of panic, and every effort was made to launch the boats by hand.

One survivor said that he saw The bodies so buried were those of the the captain's galley slung on the third killed at Jutland, and there are, grod cutter a davits, and saw the captain be reasons for regarding it as most improb- side the galley calling for Lard Kitable" that the Hampshire dead could be

earried to Scandinavia by the sea. (Continued on next column.)

The report said that the replies differed according to the dormitories in which the students roomed. Either the students in a dormitory responded generally of not. at all

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BOY FALLS FROM WINDOW.

At an inquest .at Borough Green, near Maidstone, on Benjamin, Naylor, aged 14, who, fell from a bedroom window and was killed, the father said that the night be fore the dead boy dreamat that his brother had fallen from the window.

He suggested that his son had the same dream again and lost his life in attempt ing to save his brother from death.

A verdict of Accidental Death was re- turned.

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