PILGRIMS TO MECCA
DISPUTE WITH KING OF HEDJAZ. CAIRO, July 17. A dispute has arisen between the King of the Hedjaz and the Egyptian Government in connection with the usual pilgrimage to Mecca. The former declined to permit an Egyptian medical mission to accompany the pilgrims on the ground that Hedjaz possessed sufficiently good medical supervisors; therefore the Egyptian Government recalled the mission, which was conveying the sacred carpet from Cairo to Mecca. The dispute with the kingdom of Hedjaz has aroused the keenest controversy in the Press. The action of the Egyptian Government generally is approved. A > posal that the Powers should proclaim Hedjaz a neutral State, to be administered by an international Moslem council, finds strong suffort. Hedjaz (Arabia) was formerly under Turkish administration, but it attained its independence during the course of the late war, the Lritish Government guaranteeing its autonomy. Mecca is the capital of Hedjaz.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3619, 24 July 1923, Page 19
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