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Lord Kitchener - The Truth At Last!
he sudden death of Lord Kitchener on June 5th 1916, caused as big an international stir. As that of President Kennedy and Princess Diana, and just as every one remembers where they were when the news was announced of their deaths, so it was with Kitchener. At the start of W.W.I Horatio Herbert Kitchener was recalled home from Cairo, to become secretary of state for war, Kitchener was seen as a hero, winner of battles in the Sudan, India and the Boer war. Small boys would sing out in the street “Come home Kitchener of Khartoum”. He was said he was more popular than the king.
In the lead up to W.W.I Britain’s huge battle fleet, which was coal fired, took ages to warm up and was heavy to get going, the German Inventor Rudolph Diesel invented an engine which bears his name, which was demonstrated to run on vegetable oil, so impressed were the British government that he was invited across to Britain to sell us his engines, for updating the fleet, this would give badly needed work and prosperity to Britain’s farmers, and land workers, producing vegetables for fuel. Strangely, for a man who was about to become filthy rich, the history books say Rudolph Diesel jumped over board on the crossing and drowned. Co-incidentally of course, Rothschild whose banks became rich loaning for Britain’s wars, put his agent Winston Churchill, into the admiralty as first sea lord, to lobby for the new middle east oil based engines, which would run on oil he supplied, the purchase of the new engines would be also bought with Rothschild loans. Rothschild’s bank would also take over vast chunks of Germany after the war and influence the treaty of Versailles, this would later create a major problem for all Jews in Germany. In researching the newspapers of the day, surprisingly even the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in which Churchill overrode opposition from Kitchener to push through this invasion, failed to dent Kitcheners popularity.
On June 5th 1916 in a force 8 gale, with Kitchener on board the armoured cruiser, H.M.S Hampshire suddenly and hurriedly left for Russia, with the 2 escort ships, Unity and Victor, and new instructions to travel round the Orkneys. Some short time out, the escort ships were ordered by the Admiralty to return home from the West Orkneys, leaving the Hampshire to find its way through the minefield alone, in a gale that was now force 9, on its journey to the port of Archangel, in Russia. The Admiralty was aware there was a minefield in this location because, the laurel Crown was sunk here on June 2nd. By mines laid on May 29 th by U75 U-Boat. This was confirmed by intercepted radio traffic. We are told from witness statements, that the Hampshire with 655 men on board hit one mine, but several explosions then sunk the ship. The lifeboats were said to have been unlaunchable, of the 12 survivors who made the coast, instructions were given to the home guard to shoot all those who made it ashore.
The war office later claimed that it thought the ship was German
and wanted no prisoners. |
