NUMBER ONE, MECCA.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1924, Page 4

NUMBER ONE, MECCA.

ARAB CALIPH'S TELEPHONE. The new Arnh Caliph. Kino Huessein of I li ia;:, hits had the telephone system installed in Aleeva, the birthplace of .Mohammed, ami has iusi-ted that his own number, as In-lit tine a kino, should lie No. I. .Mecca, lint tin- kino has not stopped Imre in assert .ini' his power ami dignity. In order that hi. words may not be overhead when he is carrying on a conversation the kin;' has insisted that the telephone service shall he so arranged that the lift iny; of his receiver automatically disconnect s all other telephones. I'util the rcval (ouversa t ion is litti- hed and lie- kino's receiver is replaced on its hook, no other telephone can I:.- u-ed in Aleeea ! Not content with tho telephone, the kino has al.-o had a wirelcs station creeled otil-ido Mecca, ft is us-.-d lor ofliei.il purpose- only'i'll.-. enemies ol the Kino would like the Western world to heb'.-vo that 111 i- a mere desert sheik, untutored ami

unlettered. lull. a- st correspondent ol ••Tin- Times'’ paiuis nut. hr is very fai from this. While thr new Ara.hian C Jiliph ha? man v pai rian-hial trails in his charac' trr. says a correspondent ol thr ■•( hihliva's New.-paper,’’ ho i- losprimitive- n> outlook than soitm -upI,;sr. Int til in ml 11 is Majesty certainI,- i- ia,i. ami it i- llitrilly justi-tabL i., apply tin- hohtiliiijj; description < I a mere ilcsart sheik to a monarch, who i s not only editor-in-choT ol t' I Kihht. t |, ( . 01-ii-iai organ <-f tho lli.iar.i Oov-«-ri)liM-nL lint ol toil actually write- the li’iniiim art’iclcs. ami generally makes

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