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TWENTY YEARS AFTER-

†SED as they were to a succession of shocks and horrors, few events in the war staggered

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 Died

By Petty Officer WILFRED WESSON THERE was a flutter of excitement on board H.M.S. Hampshire on the morning of June 5, 1916.

naco bolonging to the Iron Duke, Sir John Jellicoe's flagship, which, with other ships of the Grand Fleet,

was moored in Scapa Flow.

Nearer came the pinnace, and in a few moments I was able to dis- khaki-clad

tinguish a number of

garns in the boat.

And then, as she drew oven closer,

the figure

muidenly recognised among them

of Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War,

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 me.

She was to undertake a voyage Flow two days before, after with the great soldier aboard. "I gruelling operations ut the felt a thrill of pride at the signal Battle of. Jutland.

honour conferred on the ship. Her crew

The pinnace was now alongside. had scarcely re- covered from the rigours of that She rose and fell on the heavy swell that surged through Stapa 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 cars. bulent The strain of high-pressure war- fare showed in their eyes.

Captain Herbert J. Savill, the emp- Lain of the Hampshire, stood at the top of the gangway to greet Lord

The fierce hiss of escaping steam.

The Ship

Rolls. Over

Wo. were now

away from the Hampshire. Boots, still crammed with men, hung from her derricks. And then, with a fearful kind of slow lurch, the ahip 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 somersaulting plunge were drawn boats, men and wreckage.

The Hampshire had disappeared two miles from shore. When a couk ace the wlak of a light or two on the rocky Orkney mainland.

wave raised us we

Should we ever reach there? Men on our raft were dying with appalling awiftnem.

The water was icy cold. 'The And here were Admiralty or Kitchener as he came aboard followed The sluice, of rushing water. The strain and exposure were proving

confused trample of fent above. too much for them. dern to stand by for "a misslon" by a considerable party.

There were his personal military Shouting. Urgent shouting,

Old Tom Jennings-a

grey and the nature of which none but the

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There was a rather alarming alant

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about the floor of the messroom was "Tipperary" ile roared it with allke were FitzGerald, Mr. H. J. O'Beirno, There had been many that night a fierce It pathetic display of bravado. Brett of the local oflica of Phos speculating on the next move of the Foreign Office, Sir II. F. Donald- But this one didn't seem to be right. Some of us, half-heartedly, joined in

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A.

son and Mr. L. S. Robert-

son, of the Ministry of Munitions, ing itself.

Then the lights flickered out. Was another engagement with the Detective MacLaughlin, of Scotland!-

We made for the deck. yard, and several others.

enemy imminent?

Or WAR there

bea to

new

the chorus.

He stood up in the midst of this It took a long time to get there, raging, ocean and deliberately sang farewell Leicester- The only open hatchway was aft. it again. The messroom was forward, There square." Postpone Journey was a lot of water in the corridors.

Gushing water.

disposition of the naval forces that Refused To

was to take the ship from her land- locked retreat in the Orkneys ta some other stronghold?

concerned

NOTES OF THE DAY

to

They

Tom Jennings slipped to the hot- tom of the raft, and the water closed

Gradually we were being swept ta-

An hour passed. Another. It was

Forty-three men had died on the raft. There were only four of us

They were clinging to Hrebells and pieces of wreckage. There was the look of final despair on their up turned faces.

With

ajolting grind the iron rating of the raft caught on a submerged rock.

away. And yet were we much bet

The coast was only a few yards

ter off?

It looked utterly impossible.

we had been drawn away

me.

In the anaccountable way that There was a great deal of excit over him. Some whispered that the mission

leak out it soon became able congestion at the companion- the transportation of a secrels high officini on a secret and im known among the crew that the ways. I came up on to the half-wards the Orkney coast.

destination of the

was dock. They voyage

were saying that the portant voyage.

Archangel, naid the object But that was rumour.

of the Hampshire had struck a mine, It TRADITIONAL

Shortly after four o'clock that mission a conference between Kit- had exploded on the port side of her twilight. afternoon the mystery was partially choner and Russian war chiefs at the foremost engine-rooms A boiler had ROLE

Invitation of the Emperor on the been burst. cleared up.

But the Hampshire was well down left. I saw a pinnace steaming across nattur of the reorganisation of the

a little to We had passed a score of floating Italian commentators

the Flow towards us. It was a pin- latter's military forces and discus by the head. Heeling

sion of 4 scheme for the increased starboard, too. Men were hurrying holies. output of munitions.

to their bont stations. Some were Some had still a spark of life in been suggesting ulterior motives

Lord Kitchener lunched with Sir already there. The bonta were - them. in the succour which Britain is

John in the Iron Duke,

ing. was in charge of the Carley affording to the ill-starred Em-

And, despite the vital character raft stations to 'starboard.. of His mission, Sir John had tried hard to persuade him to postpone his Orders Lost peror of Ethiopia, who has now

The bagpipes noise nuisanco visit to Russin.

In Gale Beyond the land-locked harbour in Foort arrived in England. Rome question has at last been settled.

I hurried to my position. There interprets the visit as a success-It has taken Cheshire Magistrates which lay the Hampshire the seas

were orders being shouted. five slitings to reach a final judg-around the Orkneys were raging..

Sir John thought it would be mind were mostly caught in the gale and George Scott-Wood ful move by the sanctionist cle- ment. Three neighbours of a pine ness to face sich a tempest

But lost.

There seemed to be difficulty in Very little, it appeared, for above George Scott-Woodment in the British Cabinet and player had complained that 18 Kitchener was adamant,

playing was excessive, unreason- Duty always came before

per- lowering. Rome of the bonts,

our straining eyes there arose, al were electrically con- .Renars (Pianist) in other political spheres which able, unnecessary, and injurious to sonal comfort and safety with this course they

great servant of the nation. health,

trolled, and the current had failed. most sheerly, tier upon tier of jagged At support these penalties, to re-

a few minutes five, the The wind howled. Immeasurable rocks.

Could we, now in this exhausted The Magistrates have ruled that Hampshire weighed anchor, and by banks of waves burst in shivering state, argotiate those trencherous tard the development of better the complaint is justified; that the five o'clock was under way steaming cascades over the decks."

heights? Now they had managed to lower What playing of pipes in a dwelling con- towards Hey Sound, the western exit

one of the boats. It liad fifty men Now Because of the heavy gale blow in it. It could not get away from from the coast by the recession of tiguous to others is a noise nui- from Scapa Flow. is apparently overlooked is that sance. and therefore to be resing from the north-east it had been the ship. Its ropos were cut. it is a British tradition of many tricted. The restriction may be decided to follow the west coast of A wave sucked it sharply to its a giant wave, now an incoming roller

flung us. towards it. again.. counted severe, for the pastime the Orkneys northwards and thence erest.

Hope replenished our falling years' standing to give protec-i to be confined to four make for Russia.

Next minute it was awept against tion to distressed royal person-days a

Shortly after the Hampshire was the lampshire's side with terrific strength, and with a daring born of week for periods of

rounding Stromness into the open force.

a final fight against despair I clutched Nothing but a langled mass of a Jagged point of rock. ages. The task is disinterested not more than twenty minuten a

The sea drew the raft time between tho hours of 6.30

away. I bodies struggling for survival among

was alone. and humanitarian, Moreover.m. and 8.30 p.m. So, like a wise In Teeth Of

a swirling lotsam.

Wave after wave hurled itself at the visit is being made at the ills and the woods.

man, the piper will take to the

Terrific Gale And then Lord Kitchener came on

deck.

I never thought I should be able Emperor's own request. In this

He looked grave and calm. Falthfully following in her wake Circumstances alter cases, and

to hold out against their terrible dogs were the I had a curious thought. It was

battering. objected that these like two watchful

that he looked as though he might

As they broke and the water re- case, it would have been highly it might be

destroyers Unity and Veter. houra were inadmissible if the Now the ship was in the very have appeared at that moment, not ceded I scrambled

Д little way culpable to have allowed the neighbours had children, for those teeth of the most torrific gale in my. for self-preservation, but regretfully further up the precipice. 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 I was now numbed with the cold.

It a proud vessel. ordered children are put to bed. veered round to north-west, But an officer shouted, "Minke way My limbs felt like lead. My hands his enemies. The Italians may But in this instance no mention whipped the sea to a fury.

It moaned and shrieked in her for Lord Kitchener," and the men were bleeding.

The salt water in the lacerated make him the butt of their has been made of children, and in

Mountainous seas wept who stood around made a passage fenh was as red-hot needles scaring rigging. that cose a special plea would her decks in great frothing sheets, among themselves. derision; to the British people have to be put forward if a simi- All hatchways but one were bat- He was close to my station now. it.

At last the rocks were lea's steep. He was talking in turn to two naval

the top. Five more he is a fit subject for sympathy.lar dispute arose in some other toned down.

The destroyers fell back, unable officers, one on either side of him. I was near During the war, he did not

to brave the storm. They became Ile was in khaki. He was hatless. Yards. The question whether bagpipes mere specks on the. livid horizon. He wore no overcoat.

Scarlet shoulder straps

bearing me spare himself, and it is only fair should be played anywhere but in They disappeared. And still the

uninhabited regions may be eat good ship Hampshire ploughed on, the insignia of rank gleamed. Close

I had reached it. I aank to the to assume that he would never side and discussion directed to battling with the elemental foes at ly, he looked tired and worn.

ground exhausted,

I might have remained there half have left his country had the the large question of whether the every few yards.

To starboard was the fron' const Called On To

an hour, an hour, two. of the Orkneys,

I didn't think of local chiefs remained loyal and uncontrolled playing of any musi-

time. I was The Bridge cal instrument is not a nuisance. I could see the waves Blocking its

saved, his troops been capable of effec- What of a learner of the piano, or gaunt bleakness as they broke on

The Hampshire had healed much There was a light ahead. I rose. further to starboard.

But my knees immediately, gave, tive resistance to the invaders. the violin, or the cornet, practis-jutting crags.

ing within one of our modern At intervals great towers of jag- And then Lord Kitchener turned Again I staggered up and fell. As events turned out, the defen- dwellings where even the human ged black rocks rose sheerly against back.

Rave up, and lying flat face down- The captain had called to him wards wriggled my the skyline-immutable sentinels of

way across ders were unable to save their voice, penetrates the walls? the melancholy scene.

The conflicting sounds of rushing to come up to the forebridge. He a field towards the light. A crofter's native land from the might of trates' decision will raise a chorus water and screaming wind were mounted the ladder. I saw the cap. dwelling. I beat on the door with

tain's boat being holsted. That was the heel of my boot. the Italiana, which, after all, is

suddenly pierced by the sharper note the last I anw of Lord Kitchenor. The door was opened. I fell across. of the supper bugle.

There was little doubt now that the threshold in a state of collapse. not surprising. There was fear,

It swelled and faded as the squall the lampshire was doomed.

They put ne to bed. There were She listed still further.

blankets and hot-water bottles. after the Emperor left, that dis- grateful for the protection ac- tormented its shrill cadences

Clouda I went down to my messroom for

of steam were emerging. shivered for hours. aster might overtake the foreign corded. This work of rescue, sapat about Leicester-square to the starboard side.

from her foremost engine room on Bly wounded hands were bandaged. colony in the Ethiopian capital like the according of succour to

They still show the scars of their night?" sighed Tom Lench, who,

Men were now jumping into the laceration. before the Italiaus arrived to the Negus, is also a British ko myself, hailed from London. water from the quarterdock. Some Two days later the Admiralty made restore order, but thanks to the tradition. We count it a pri- He munched his bread and cheese of them had been badly scalded. arrangements for the survivors to be meditatively, far-away look in his Others showed wounds that bied. transferred to a hospital ship at part played by the British Lega-vilege to perform such services, eyes.

There was a rush to my raft. We Scapa Flow. tion staff and guard in the rescue knowing also that other nations

Samuel Sweeny started a cut the lashings and managed to There were eleven boaldes myself on the possible pro- Inanch it. Forty or fifty crowded an who had miraculously clambered up of the foreign communities, would do likewise in similar sence of U-boats on our course. 110 and several of us paddled in a frenzy those precipitous rocks. justifiable source of pride to all circumstances. Thanks to the was shouted down, Then mines. of hante

to get clear, of the fast- Scores of others were dashed to But some one had heard that the sinking ship.

pieces on crags. Wreckage of boats concerned, the worst was pre-worldwide nature of British coast had been swopl.

As we drew away several of the was washed ashore as far south as vented. The forethought where-responsibilities, our opportuni-

Injured leaped on the raft into our Aberdeen. midst.

Pieces of the captain's boat were- by a force of Sikhs was sent to tics for such humanitarinn inter- Kitchener Comes

I am never forget their agonised identified. Addis Ababa was abundantly vention are and have been more)

On Dock. screams A the salt water washed An Admiralty inquiry was held. justified by subsequent events, abundant than those of other that above the treble whine of the

And it was at this very moment their wounds.

Survivors were summoned to it. We were fifty yards away, A It was conclusively proved that Indeed, had it not been for this countries. But they are will-gale there imposed itself the deeper hundred, Waist-deep in creaming the Hampshire struck a nine, and. Burt. Tossed hithor and thither on it was practically certain that these small but efficient unit, grave ingly accepted and discharged, ominous note of an explosion.

The ship lurched.

Whirled with maelstrom had been laid the week before by consequences might have result-and the case of the visit of the

the a dreadful grating fierceness. Was

German submarine U76 as a ed to the thousands of foreigners Negus to England is merely an- noise somewhere in the bowels of A good many were almost im preliminary to the operation of the the vessel-like flints dung into the medialely swept from the raft by enemy's floct at Jutland. U75 laid who must have been profoundly other illustration of the fact... daliente mechanism, of machinery, the fury of the water,

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