NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 November 1924, Page 8

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

PALACE FOR £l2O. EX-KING’S PROPERTY. LONDON, Nov. 8. Ex-King Hussein’si palace at Mecca has been sold at auction for £l2O. (Hussein, King of Hedjaz, which includes the city of pilgrimage, Mecca, abdicated his throne at the beginning of last month.) A SIMPLE PREMIER. BOWLER AND CHERRYWOOD. LONDON, Nov. 13. At the first meeting of the new Cabinet all the Ministers arrived silkhatted . with the exception of their chief, the Prime Minister. Mr Baldwin came wearing the democratic bowler and smoking a cheerywood pipe. Mr. Austen Chamberlain sprinted the whole length of Downing Street, pursued by camera men. NON-UNIONIST CHAUFFEUR. LABOUR MAYOR’S OBJECTION CAR TO BE DISCARDED. LONDON, Nov. 7. The finance committee of the Bradford Corporation lias refused the request of the. new Lord Mayor, Aiderman J. Palm, who is a Labour member of the House of Commons, for a unionist chauffeur iu place of a non-unionist ex-service man, who has driven the Mayoral motor-car sinec 1921. The Lord Mayor states that he will discard the car and use the Corporation’s trams. HOW THE WAR ENDED. MERCY - OF THE ALLIES. LONDON, Nov. 10. Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice, in an article in the Daily News on “How the War Ended,” recalls that the Germans found it impossible to retreat through bottle-necks, and abandoned masses of guns and stores. Marshal Foc-h’s plan was completely successful in cutting the great arteries and lateral communications. Marshal Foch and Earl Haig had agreed that if the Germans after the. armistice appeal accepted the terms, it would be wicked to continue fighting. “All honour to these two soldiers for their decision!” writes General Maurice. “They were merciful in their triumph. If the peace is hot thoroughlv satisfactory, the fault is not theirs.”