er commander. According to
this man Kitchener had on a raincoat and held a walking stick in his
hand. He said that the two men calmly watched preparations for
departure and saw at least two lifeboats smashed against the ship's
side.

Twenty minutes after being torpedoed the _Hampshire_ sank, with a loss
of 300 lives.

On July 9, 1916, two days after the _Hampshire_ went down, eleven men
of the cruiser reached the Orkneys, after forty-eight hours buffeting
by the waves upon a raft. The body of Colonel Fitzgerald was washed
ashore the same day of the sinking, but the sea did not give up
Kitchener or any of the other members of his staff.

The Italian admiralty made known June 9, 1916, that the transport
_Principe Umberto_ had fallen victim to a submarine in the Adriatic
with a large loss of life. Estimates of the dead ran from 400 to 500.

King George and Queen Mary attended a memorial service at St. Paul's
in honor of Kitchener on June 13, 1916, when many of the most
prominent officials and citizens of the realm were present. They had a
large military escort to and from the cathedral in respect to the dead
war minister. Other services were held at Canterbury and in many
cities through the kingdom.

On the night of June 18, 1916, a squadron of Russian submarines,
destroyers and torpedo boats surprised a German convoy of merchant
vessels at a point southeast of Stockholm and not far from Swedish
waters. Owing to the heavy losses of German shipping in the Baltic
practically all Teuton ships in that sea traveled under escort only,
and there was a dozen or more vessels in the convoy. An engagement
took place lasting forty-five minutes, during which the Russians sank
the auxiliary cruiser _Herzmann_, capturing her crew and two other
craft, one of which was believed to have been a destroyer. In the
confusion all of the merchant ships reached the Swedish coast and
other destroyers and armed trawlers accompanying them made good their
escape. Berlin admitted the loss, adding that the _Herzmann's_
commander and most of her crew were saved.

During the night of June 16, 1916, the British destroyer _Eden_
collided with the transport _France_ in the English Channel and sank.
Thirty-one men and officers escaped.

The German submarine _U-35_, commanded by Lieutenant von Arnauld, put
into Cartagena, Spain, June 21, 1916, after a 1,500 mile run from Pola
with a personal letter to King Alfonso, signed by Kaiser Wilhelm. The
missi