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Show KITCHENER DENIES THE INTERVIEW. Lord Kitchener has discredited I Irvln S. Cobb, special var correspon dent, who has been writing for the Saturday Evening Post. The commander-in-chief of the British army declares he never gave Cobb tho statements quoted as coming from him and that the remarks attributed to the famous general are imaginary- Cobb reasserts be did not err iu reporting bis conversation with Kitchener. Kitch-ener. Tho great majority of the reading public will accept Kitchener's version ver-sion cf what took place at the interview, inter-view, and frcm now on Mr. Cobb's war stories will fall under the head of "Doubtful." We fear that the larger percentage of American "war correspondents," deprived of even a glimpse at the firing fir-ing lineB, are manufacturing their "news," and, adding a liberal amount of flattery such as Cobb bestowed on Kitchener, are trusting to the soft-soaping soft-soaping as a means of concealing their deceptive tactics. , oo |