Foreign News: Clods, Hunks

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, was en route to Russia aboard H. M. S. Hampshire on June 5, 1916. So much and no more the world knows of Kitchener. Why the Hampshire sank is not positively known, though conclusive evidence has been adduced to show that she sank as a result of the explosion of a submarine mine. Because so little is known, or because there is so little to know of the presumptive death by drowning of Lord Kitchener, the press has been flooded with recurrent rumors that: a)...

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