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Show OFFICER TELL8 HOW HAMILTON MET HIS DEATH London, Oct. 19. A letter lecelv ed In London today from an olllcer friend of Major General Hubert Ham llton, whose body has boon brought to England tells how the English gen eral mot his end on tho French b.it tlefleld. , . "Ho was standing with a group In a covered place," the olllcer writes, "when a shrapn'ol burst 100 yards away. A bullot plercod General Hamilton's tempto and ho was killed on tho spot. No othor member ot the group was scratched. "It was a fine death, but I know how the general would havo felt to be taken before his work was done." The tuneral services, tbo officer adds; were held whllo shells were bursting all around. Tho din wus so great that the chaplain's volco ai drowned. |