13 NOVEMBER 1915, Page 3

The Press Bureau made the following announcement in the papers

of last Saturday : " During Lord Kitchener's temporary absence on public duty the Prime Minister is carrying on the work at the War Office. There is no truth in the statement that Lord Kitchener has resigned," This was the official answer to a series of extraordinary rumours which had besieged London on the previous day, and had caused the definite announcement in some evening papers that Lord Kitchener had resigned. The rumours had their origin in the facts that Lord Kitchener bad had a long interview with the King in spite of His Majesty's illness, and that Mr. Asquith had already been working at the War Office.