Item HAMILTON, ISM 17/84 - Press cuttings, Sep-Dec 1936, on topics including hunting for spies in 1914, and General Sir John Monash

Newspaper and journal cuttings, including review of The Liao-Yang Campaign by Lt Col Alfred Higgins Burne (William Clowes, London, 1936), to which Hamilton contributed a foreword, The Times Literary Supplement (14 Nov); on his speech to the Royal Naval Division dinner, London, 21 Nov, revealing that in Aug 1914, FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, had ordered him to command spy hunting missions in Northern England and Scotland; letter from Hamilton to The Daily Telegraph (30 Nov), supporting the description of Gen Sir John Monash as a former civilian with a talent for military leadership, as given in volume six of War memoirs by Rt Hon David Lloyd George MP (Ivor Nicholson and Watson, London, 1936). 1 file