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Kitchener's Last Voyage

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THERE is not really much mystery about the death of Lord Kitchener, save what the imagination of men have woven round the event. It was natural that the plain truth, at such a time and about such a man, should have found people incredulous.

Britain was at war; there was, a strict censorshin of news; and as a result, no one quite knew how much to believe or dis- believe.

In such a mood the nation was told of Lord Kitchener's death; and was told, too, that the man who, in spite of all that his critics might say, was still, in the eyes both of his fellow-country- men and of the outside world, the foremost figure in the British Empire, had perished by an extraordinary, tragic, almost incredible accident.

At the beginning; of June 1918, the War had reached a crisis. The Batlle of Jutland had just been fought, and, notwithstanding its indeclsive churac- ter, had settled the mastery of the reas; the German attacks on Verdun had recently broken against the rock of French resistance; the new armles of the British Empire were about to begin their offensive on the Somme; Kut had fallen and Gallipoli had been evacuated; on the other hand, there were signs that after a year of dis- aster and retreat the Russian armies were coming back.

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This was the moment chosen for Lurd Kitchener's visit to Petrograd. after another ascend the The suggestion was made by no less British Throne, performs a func-important a person than the unfor- tion essential to the very existence. tunate Emperor of Russla. He in- of the greatest Empire the worldvited the Secretary for War to come, in order that he might obtain a first- has ever known.

hand knowledge of the tremendous difficulties with which the Russian Government was grappling, and that the toltering industry and unselfish public ser-he might confer with the generaly vice. The pinnacle is of paratively recent origin. It did not exist at all two centuries ago upon the when the Crown was head of George I, and four genera- tions of the family of Hanover oecupled the Throne in succession the without greatly changing situation. It was not until the reign of the fifth of that line, that British Victoria, Queen royalty-began to win for itself something of the high position it holds to-day.

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The importance of the projected. visil was recognised in Londou, reestablishment of an the Where

effective front in the East was re- garded as an essential preliminary to Lord Kitchener, too, Allied victory. was anxious to go.

departure The arrangements for were pushed through al top speed. It was to be a lightning tour. Lord to visit Fetro- Kitchener proposed grad, G.H., a portion of the Front Line, Moscow and Petrograd-again; all in the space of a week.

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America soon got the men

ONSCRIPTION makes the headlines. What happened in the last war? Take America as one example.

On April 5, 1917, she declared war on Ger- many. By May 18 Congress had authorised the first sweeping Conscription Act, which called on all male Americans between the ages of 21 and 30 to register as potential recruits for the Ameri- can expeditionary force.

That Arst register for what afterwards be- came known as the "draft" yielded 10,500,000 names in a few weeks.

When Wilson persuaded Congress to declare war, the military resources of the United States were almost negligible. The Regular Army, which had a pence-time establishment of 220,000 men of all arms, could not muster more than 100,- 000 effectives.

The Militia, or National Guard, was far be- low its strength of 440,000, and in many cases it was ludicrously inefficient.

By Lichty

"If you can take this route, now's the time for it--the roads are excellent, the scenery is magnificent and all the petrol stations are having a price war!"

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Almost the first act of the Govern- ment was to call for volunteers to bring both Services up to strength. In those early weeks, when America was still stunned by the dramatic turn of events, there were Congressmen who wished their coun- try to fight on a voluntary basis.

But there was no great response; every second man waiting for the other to take the first step.

By the end of April-In just over tirec weeks-Congress determined on a scheme of selective conscription, and while the necessary arrange- ments were being made they called for volunteers to bring the Regular Army up to 287,000 and the Militia" to 625,000.

To show their determination, the Government readily neceded to the request of the French higher com- mond and immediately sent to France a Regular division under the com- nand

of General Pershing. These 20,000 were the precursors of nearly

2.000,000.

The whole of America was trans- formed in the space of a month. To accommodate and train the hundreds of thousands of volunteers and con- scripts it was found necessary to es- tablish 32 huge cantonments, cncn une the base of 40,000 officers and

men.

Ships Confiscated

THE forty-eight States were

mobilised for wat, aul Ger man shipping interned in American ports was confiscated and hastily Mill'ons converted into transports.

of tons of food, equipment, munitions and tobacco-were shipped across the Atlantic.

short

Immense was

Indeed, for years after the war in the tabacs of the regi in France nearly all the tobacco and cigarettes remains of the stupendous stores could afford from the north-easterly shore-and-a--number of men were were labelled-stock Americaine, the.

killed or drowned. gole which was blowing.

It seems, however, that Lord Kit- which Uncle Sam thought would be for his sons to smoke to enter She was travelling at full speed,

no uttempt chener mudc

waiting to attack the enemy. George V, of beloved memory,

The party accompanying him was

In the States the new recruits were who was a grandson of Queen to consist of Sir. Frederick Donaldson, and after a while the escorting de either boat or raft. He came up on General Ellershaw, Colonel Fitz-stroyers found that they could neither

out. Some wore torles could turn Victoria, and father of our present gerald, Mr. O'Beirne, of the Foreign keep up with her, nor, indeed, make deck and there he stayed until the

ship, monarch, brought this conception fee, Mr. Robertson, Second Lieu- any sort of headway in such wild end, when he went down with the given any uniforms the textile fac- First Class Petty Officer Wilfred what were known as "campaigners' " of royalty to its present state of tenant McPherson, one clerk, one de- weather.

In the end they gave up the ut- Wesson has described the scene on hats. Some of the infantry had put- tees. Others had to be content with completeness. He also founded tective, and three servants.

"At 8 p.m.. while the watch below gaiters. The mission left London late in the tempt and returned to Scapa Flow, board:

hammocks of Windsor.

It was long before the new armies, the present House

June 4. At leaving the Hampshire to continue

were standing by their afternoon of Sunday,

in, an explosion oc- fast pouring into Europe, had regu- Shortly

that ready to turn During his reign the Throne was King's Cross, just before the special her voyage alone,

after eight o'clock

of the curred. I was on the mess deck atlation equipment with overseas caps effaced from politics, and erected train was due to leave, there was a

the Commander

went brought with them so much personal instead into an emblem of British hitch. Mr. O'Beirne could not find

his servent; and though the party Western Patrol at Stromness reported the time. When the explosion hap-and steel helmets. And at first they

a cruiser was in pened, all lights immediately

kit

leave out and a terrible draught came rush-

the Imperial unity and goodwill.

could have sailed without the ser- by telephone that

most of it

behind

hind as gifts to To-day we celebrate the official vant it could not have sailed without dimculties,

French grateful It was the Hampshire. Between ing along the mess deck, blowing all it that they were glad to

peasantry with whom billeted in the villages Monarch who, the cipher which the servant carried.7.30 and 7.45 she had struck a mine, the men's caps offi

they were birthday of

"While I was waiting with arranged that Fifteen minutes later she sank; and ascending the Throne under con-

Eventually it was which

thought both Mr. O'Beirne and his servant although she was only a mile and a others on the half-deck an officer that line the roads from the coasts of ditions

many

called half from shore, between the Brough came with Lord Kitchener from the Brittany and Normandy to the old-

out time Western Front. cabin. He of Birsay and Marwick Head, only captain's

America waged war on a colossal insuperable from difficulties, has should follow by another special.

The arrangements for the journey twelve men escaped with their lives. Make room for Lord Kitchener, and in the short span of two

He went on deck and I chener pass. established a place in the hearts had been made with one main ob Lord Kitchener, his Staff and all the the men opened out to let Lord Kit scale. Never is the history of man-

ship'a officers perished.

assembled in such did not see any more of him after kind was so much man-power and

material of his subjects as securely as that lect-lo enable Lord Kitchener to reach Russia in the shortest possible

that. gained by his illustrious father time. The train was to take him to

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The account of Leading Seaman space of time. Brest become an devotion to duty and in ability to close to Scapa Flow, where the Grand

first news of the disaster Charles Rogerson is also interesting: American port and remained so for a

"I was the last of the survivors to couple of years. So forget himself in secking the Fleet lay, There he was to board a reached London in a despatch from

see Lord Kitchener before leaving the influx of American soldiers into welfare and happiness of those. fast cruiser which, escorted by de- Admiral Jellicoe:

to him would carry

For a long time more than a quar- I have to report with deep re-the ship. I notice that his Lordship Europe that whole divisions had to around him. He is devoted to his stroyers,

Americans were of a million Archangel, the only port of Russia in

gret that H.M.S. Hampshire (Cap is said to have been drowned by the be landed in British poris.

ter family and to his country.

Lord Kitchener and his Staff on not correct. Lord Kitchener went landed in Europe every month, In tain Herbert J. Savili, RN.), with overturning of a boat, but this is His Majesty Is, as undoubtedly Europe which was open to our ships.

the ship. He did not

September 1910 the figure reached board, was sunk last night about down with 8 pm. to the west of the Orkneys, leave her.

"I saw Captain Savlil helping his the gigantle total of 311,000. either by a mine or torpedo.

Appeal Tribunals As the train tore north through ter" expressed the foalings of the

"Four boats were seen by ob- boat's crew to clear a way to the masses when it reported yesterday Scotland the rising wind and drench-

ONC rough passage;

seruera to leave the ship. The galley. The captain at this time was the ing rain presaged a during little Incident

wind was N.N.E. and heavy scas calling to Lord Kitchener to go to Canadian tour when an enthusias and when, on the morning of June 5,

were running. Patrol vessels and the boat, but owing to the noise of tio

destroyers at once proceeded to the the wind and the sea Lord Kitchener Canadian subject shouted the party reached Thurso a big sea

spot, and a party was sent along apparently could not hear him. "H'ya, King!" as the Royal train was running, the glass was still fall-

onlyWhen the explosion occurred Lord spontaneous enthusiasm for national the coast to search, but pulled in to the station at Toronto.ing, and there was every prospect of

a stormy night.

some bodies and a capsized boat Kitchener walked culmly from the service in every region-of-America, the column" were publicly ostracised. It was a follow-man as well as a

At Thurso Lord Kitchener

have been found up to the present. captain's cabin, went up the ladder Those who blatantly tried to "dodge As in our own country after the Ruler who laughed boyishly and barked in n destroyer and, after mak-

"As the whole shore has been and on to the quarter-deckow replied: Tine! How are you?"

ing the short passage to Seapa, went

searched from the seaward, 1 "Althoughs 1 really

was mado that men bo You cannot conceive of Royalty on board the Iron Duke, where he

greatly fear that there is little hope what happened, my bellef is that the introduction of compulsory service, in leas democratic nations of the lunched with Admiral Sir Jolm

of there being any survivors. No Hampshire struck a mine which ex- there were tribunals of appeal. Every report has yet been received from ploded under her fore-part. It could effort world as being so close to

service would not interfere with the tot have been a submarine in such aclected whose absence on milltary the search party on shore." people. Our King and Queen have

After the meal the Admiral

A litle later the shore party re-weather."

Another survivor stated that he, Industrial and economie life of the

Each man's long since built up the tradition plained the tactics of the Battle of

carefully. throughout the Empire that they Jutland, fought a few days previously, ported finding the twelve survivors,

on the quarter-deck, talking to his examined

If he was a key engineer in a munt- are just like you or 1 only in which Lord Kitchener showed a from whom we have the full story of too, last saw Lord Kitchener standing nation.

officer. friendlier and pleasanter to talk very keen interest. The party was the tragedy.

"I won't say," the man added, "he tions factory, then he was exempted to. It is a tradition that served then taken from the flagship

did not feel the strain of the perilous for the time being. If he was the also given temporary re- the monarchy well in the days of H.M.S. Hampshire, the cruiser which

Those who hesitated or When the explosion occurred Lord situation like the rest of us, but he sole wage-corner in a large family George V, and is doing so much had been detailed for the voyage to Archangel, and which, as soon as the

lils cabin. Four boats were at once and from the little time that elapsed prieve. the scattered outposts of this great anchor and steamed off.

By October 1917 there were 1,750,- Meanwhile the weather had become lowered, but these were swamped or between my leaving the ship and her made falso testimony before the tri- 000 with, the Colours, including the Empire which owes allegianco to a common Crown.

Three rafts were then got away chener went down with her, standing with rather better results. But the on the deck at tune," were running.

So Lord Kitchener died, as these Regular Army and Millia. Then in The Royal familly has supplied more stormy, and tremendour seas smashed to pleces almost immediately. sinking I feel certain that Lord Kit-bunals were drafted at once. Admiral evening was bitter cold, and many a Monarch to whom we people of

In accordance with

pected him to dio, without fear and were at a low ebb, yet another Act was passed compelling the registra- The Empire, no matter whore we Jellicoo's personal Instructions, the of the men, who were ball-clad, died who Imew him best would have ox- 1018, when the fortunes of the Allies tion of all men between 18 and 48. boy can renew with increasing rampshire shaped her course west of of exposure.

On one of tho-rafts alone, 43 dend without reproacht,

Hils hody was never recovered.

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PLEASE Turn To Pago 5. coast of the Orkneys, to us to enjoy bodies were found; another raft: was and allegiance,

for a space such shelter as the Islands (dashed against the rocks close to the God Bless the King.

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to-day to nveld even more firmlyonssengers were' aboard, weighed Kitchener was resting and reading in gave no outward sign of nervousncas; he was

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