MECCA PILGRIMAGE
DISPUTE WITH KING HUSSEIN. A SETTLEMENT EFFECTED, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyxi? li. LONDON, June 18. (Received June 18, at 8.15 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph’s Cairo correspondent says that the dispute between the Egyptian and the Hedjaz ' Governments regarding tho Mecca pilgrimage has been settled. King Hussein has given assurances concerning the treatment of the military and medical escorts which caused the differences last year. Therefore it has been decided to despatch the Holy Carpet to Mecca next week. PARIS, June 18. Seven thousand decrees expelling Germans from the French zone of occupation have been withdrawn. The Egyptian bearing the Sacred Carpet to Mecca last year was recalled to Cairo owing to the-action of King Hussein in objecting to the medical escorts on the ground that Hedjaz could supply the medical services required.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19202, 19 June 1924, Page 7
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