London, Aug. 11.
For months the "Referee" has been carrying on a campaign intend. ed to show that Lord Kitchener was betrayed by spies and, after the wreck of the Hampshire, murdered by one of them, and that his body was washed upon the coast of Scandinavia and there buried. Indeed, they are bringing the alleged remains to this country for examination, though how they managed the exhumation is a mystery, The Admiralty, in an official statement just made, throws light on the cause of the disaster to the Hampshire, which went down with Lord Kit chener on board at the end of May, 1916, At the outset, @ denial is given to a report that the bodies of officers and men belonging to. the vessel were washed up on the Scandinavian coast and that Kitchener's body was buried there.
The secret of Lord' Kitchener's mission, says the report, was striety guarded at the Admiralty, His arrival on board the Hampshire and the vessel's departure for Ar-changd came as a complete svrprise to the crew. Dealing with the actual disaster, the White Paper states that the ship had reduced speed when an explosion occurred under the forward half, The ship at once began to settle down and
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