The Pulaskian., 1916-06-09
BRITISH LORD GOES DOWN WITH CRUISER
EARL KITCHENER AND STAFF LOST WHEN SHIP SINKS OFF
 ORKNEY ISLANDS.
BLOW TO GREAT BRITAIN
This Ia the Second Shock Country Sustained Within a Week--other Was When Newspapers Told Of
 Naval Battle in the North Sea.

London. The news that Earl Kitch- ener, secretary of state for war, and his staff, who were proceeding to Rus sia aboard the cruiser Hampshire. were lost off the Orkney Islands was the most stunning blow Great Britain has received since the war began.
 This is the second shock the coun- try has sustained within q week. Tho other was when the newspapers ap- peared with the first intelligence of the naval battle in the North Sea, m the form of a list of the ships lost, with virtually no intimation that there was any compensation In the way of enemy losses. The bulletin telling of the death of Kitchener gave the country even greater shock.
 Kitchener was the one outstanding personality whom the people talked of and believed in as a great man, not withstanding newspaper attacks, which at former period of the war threat ened to undermine his popularity and the public confidence Tn him.
 A telegram from Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, commander of the fleet, giv. ing the bare facts, was received at rAe admiralty. Such news, however cam not be kept. entirely secret, even Tor an hour Before noon rumors wera the newspaper offices were busy with inquirers anxious to know whether this-one Of the many reports circu- lating in these days of tension had any foundation. They were told there was nothing in it.
 Admiral Jellicoe's report to the ad- niralty follows
 T have to report with deep regret that his majesty's ship, Hampshire. Capt. Herbert I Savill, l. N, with Lord Kitchener and his staff on bc@yd, was sunk west of the Orkneys, either by mine or torpedo.
 -Four boats were seen by observers on shore to leave the ship. The wind was north-northwest, and heavy seas were running. Patrol vessels and de- stroyers at once proceeded to the spot and party was sent along the coast to search, but only some bodies and capsized boat have been found ap to the present. As the whole shore has been searched from the seaward, I greatly fear that there is little hope of there being any survivors.
 "No report has yet been received from the search party on shore
 "H. M. s. Hampshire was on her way to Russia"
 When the official announcement was issued the fact spread about London some time before the newspapers could get into the streets. There Mas crowd about the Stock Exchange which required police reserves xo deal with. The police told everyone to move on; that there was no truth in the reports.
 At the same time another mass of people was assembling about the gov. ernment offices in Whitehall. All tho windows of the war office had the clff- tains lowered That confirmed th8 rumor beyond doubt. Other crowds gathered around the newspaper offices. When the boys came out with an armful of extras the people fell on them and fought for the papers. In the course of the afternoon the flags on all buildings were flown at half mast
 The English undoubtedly are stoi- cal people and have taken the good and the bad tidings of the war as they came, with an absence of emotion Hlr- prising to outsiders. But no one could have walked the London streets without perceiving that something which the common people took as . calamity had befallen them.
 The foreign office was saddened Dy the loss of one of it's most valued members, Hugh James O'Beirne, while Sir Frederick Donaldson and Brfg- Gen. Ellershaw of the ministry of mu- nitions were known to be men whom the nation could little afford to lose.