The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-08-04
W||l[ 0E KIICHEbER1
Which Reviyes Old Story Of Field
MarshaI's Marriage With
:. Indian Princess

Great Britain h concerned with a
mystery that concerns no less person
age than the hate Earl Kitchener, VINO
perished when the Hampshire, the cruia.
er in which he was going 70 Russia,
was sunk &C the Orkney Islea, north OF
scotland, The mystery IL created BY
line in the will Of the late field
marshal Of Great Britain, which reads.
"pBroome Park, with advowsons or
manors and all land freehold or copy
hold tenure In the county Of Kent to
the use Of my Arst and other sons and
with REMINDER TO the use of my first
daughter and other daughters.'' ~:
itlWhat does this meanip was the
question that every Britisher asked
himself when the eopy Of the will, was
made pubhctat Doctors Commons, Lon
don, according 10 letters received in
the British Colony here yesterday.
Rated Al Woman Hater'
Ever since Kitehner was a nbaltern
In the Egyptian army; thirty or forty
years ago, he was recognized both in
the army md In the outside world of
| society as q rtwoman hater.n As q
young man at school and at college, his
friends knew that 1t was useless TO at.
tempt TO get him to meet women. He
would have none Of the opposite sex,
keeping himself very much TO himself
and avoiding all intimacy with petit
coats.p AD#lAt 3,
asAs he grew older and came more and
more into the public eye this attitude
Of his became more and more thorough
ly understood by everyone He was fire..
quently quoted as having said that q
soldier should regard himself as ~ mar.
risd to his fegiment,s, aud that ''ofi.
GERS had no fightSto marry while they
had active work 10 perform. -
Indian Rrinceas Involved s..
Because Of this stern attitnde the re.
port that became current IN British
army circles about thirty years ago, to
the effect that Kitchener, then looming
large in the public eye, because of his
remarkable campaigns in Egypt, was
married and that his wife had left him,
grew like a mushroom over night. II
assumed all sorts of fantastic shapes.
His wife was the daughter of a promi.
nent Indian offcial, and she had left
him Immediately after their marriage
and refused to return. 1t was asserted
that heEhad loved her for years and
that for this reason declined to have
anything to do with others of her sex.
Other accounts of the yarn declared
that the bride was the daughter of an
Indian Fajah, who had brought with her
a perfectly fabulous dUwery in gold and
jewels.
Kitchener Pays No Heed
But Kitchener kept on the strenuous
tenor of way, ignoring the tales about
him, aud. the story finally slumbered.
IL cropped out again several times.
Indeed 1t ran close second to the re.
peated, announcements of the field
marshalis engagement to some Of the
available women of Great Britain and
the United states. When Lord Kitch.
ener WINS in this country several years
ago mainland papers reprinted the story
with many variations.
But in all the years Kitchener gave
no sign. Then came his death and the
subsequent publication of his will, dis
posing Of net personal estate valued
ut l46,SS6 pounds sterling, or approx.
mately three quarters of q million dol.
lars, including the various grants made
to him by the British government in
recognition of his services to the en-.
pire and containing the mysterious ref.
erence TO "my first and other sons and
my first and other daughters.
Entailment OF Estate
Continuing, the viii, after disposing
81 Broome, from which the late field
marshal took one Of his titles, says:
"With remainder to COmdr. H. T.
Chevallier Kitchener, b. N, son of my
brother, H. Z. ChaVellier Kitchener;
with remainder to his sons, according to
seniority intail male; with remainder to
H. H. Kitchener, son Of my brother,
Sir +. Walter Kitchener, with remand
er to his first and other sons.''
After speaking of the many swords of
honor, plate and other gifts by the
public or by official bodies, the will
says: a.
IA sum of fifty thousand pounds to
be treated as capital under the settled
land act to be set aside from BrOome
Park income; to Colonel Fitzgerald"
Colonel Fitzgerald was on Kitchen
er b personal staff and was one of those
who went down in the Hampshire. His
body was afterwards found on the rocks
Of north Scotland. The will gives TO
the other officers of KitGhener,s staff
$1,000 each.
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