17 JUNE 1916, Page 3

The Admiralty has announced that twelve survivors from the '

Hampshire,' in which Lord Kitchener lost his life off the Orkneys, were washed ashore on a raft. Seventy-five bodies were recovered, but Lord Kitchener's was not among them. The criticism that the ' Hampshire' ought to have been escorted was fully answered by the statement that two destroyers did accompany her, but were forced to put back by the heavy seas. It has also been officially announced that the Hampshire' was wrecked by a mine.