Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-07
EARL KITCHENER AND 300 OTHERS
 JOSE WITH SHIP Great Britain Stunned by Death of War Secretary Second Blow of Week, EXPLOSION SENDS
 VESSEL TO BOTTOM Disaster Occurs Off Orkney Islands, Just North of Scotland, While the Secretary for War Is En Route
 to Russia.

London, June 6.-F1eld MafShal Kitchener, British secretary of war, and several members of his staff have been lost at sea off the Orkney is- lands by the sinking of the British cruiser Hampshire, on which Earl Kitchener was making voyage to Russia on a special mission to En- peror Nicholas, and probably, also, with the intention of visiting the front in Russia, where the great of- fensive against the Teutonic allies has been begun by the Russians. So far as has been ascertained, there were no survivors of the disaster, and it seems probable that between 200 and 300 men met death when the Hampshire either struck mine or was torpedoed.
 That Lord Earl Kitchener was lost was the most stunning blow Great Britain has received since the war began. This is the second shock the country has sustained within a week. The other was when the newspapers appeared Friday with the first an- nouncement of the naval battle in the form of the list of ships lost. With virtually no intimation there was any compensation in the way of enemy loses The bulletin telling of the death of Lord Kitchener gave the country even a greater shock. Kitch:- ener was the outstanding personality believed in as really great man.
 The telegram from Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, commander of the fleet giving the bare facts, was received by the admiralty about Il o'clock in the morning. The first official announce ment was made at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
 JellicOe Reports Disaster. Accompanying Earl Kitchener as his staff were: Hugh James O'Bierne former counsellor of the British em' ! bassy at Petrograd and former min ister at Sofia; o. A. Fitzgerald, Earl Kitchener's private military secre- tary; Brigadier General EllershaW and Sir Frederick Donaldson.
 | Admiral Jellicoe's report to the ad' miraity follows:
 l q have to report with deep regret that his majesty's ship Hampshire Captain Herbert J. Savill, R. N., with Lord Kitchener and his staff or board, was sunk last night at about 8 o'clock to the west of the Crkneys either by a mine or torpedo.
 -Four boats were seen by observers on shore to leave the ship. The wint was northwest and heavy seas were running. Patrol vessels and destroy CTS at once proceeded to the spot ane a party was sent along the coast tt search, but only some bodies and { capsized boat have been found up tt the present. As the whole shore has been searched from the seaward,
 greatly fear that there is little hop' of there being any survivors.
 l "No report yet has been received from the search party on shore.
 HI. M. s. Hampshire was on he way to Russia"
 En Route to Russia.
 The Orkney islands, off which. tn Hampshire went down, arc off thu north coast of Scotland. The Hamp shire was on her way into the At lantic and around the northern en' of the Scandinavian peninsula int the white sea. Earl Kitchener proba bly, intended to debark at Archangel
 The Hampshire was one of the De vonshire class of six cruisers. Sh was built in 1905 and normally car ried 655 men. She displaced 10,S5' tons and was $50 feet long. 68R fee beam and drew 251a feet. She va armed with four 7.5 inch. six 6-inch two 1pounders and twenty 3-pounde guns and two torpedo tubes. She cos $4,250,000. The Hampshire has beel
 in use as scout boat and for carry } ing oyicials on various missions. hay ing ample accommodations for tn
 latter purpose. She was too old t take place on the fighting line. Il Robertson War Secretary. London Inro G-Tho first uNQstio