Sunday Referee

[4] George Robert Sims, who was a popular journalist for The Referee, was approached by East End headmistress Elizabeth Burgwin.

[5] In 1925/26 the paper gave front-page coverage for many weeks to apparent revelations by the writer Frank Power (real name Arthur Vectis Freeman) about the sinking of HMS Hampshire and the disappearance of Herbert Horatio Kitchener ten years previously.

These culminated with Power's sensational claim to have returned Kitchener's coffin to Britain, but on official examination it was found to be empty except for weighting material.

[7] Other columnists during this period included Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson, the "maverick" Liberal politician William Mabane and the philosopher Bertrand Russell.

The front page masthead carried the paper's title in Gothic script above the slogan "The national newspaper for all thinking men and women".