NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1926, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

WOMAN RULER ABDICATES. SIMLA, May 20. It is officially announced that the Begum of Bhopal has abdicated in favour of her son, Hamidulla Khan, wjio has been recognised by His Majesty’s Government as the ruler of Bhopal. Tho Begum of Blmpal. who, until her abdication, was the only woman ruler in India, recently visited London to press her petition that her only surviving son should be recognised as her heir to the exclusion of the sens of her two elder sons, who died in 1924. For several months, during which she went about heavily veiled and attended by a gorgeously robed retinue, she urged the claim for her son with great determination. On MJircli 19. the India Office announced that it had been decided to grant her wish. Colonel Nawabzada Hamidiilla Khan is 31 and lias been closely associated with his mother in her rule o.'er 700.099 subjects and in the administration of the State, which comprises 6,900 square miles. Ho saw service during the war and was on the staff of the Prince of Wales during lis Indian tour. Bhopal has had women rulers for the last 80 years.

“VICTORY OF THE £.” NEW YORK, May 20. In a loading article entitled “'I be Victory of tho £” the New York World pays a notable tribute to the financial heroism of Britain. It describes the outcome of the genvictorv for the British people, but says that the achievement of parity for sterling in the wake of the strike is a victory less spectacular but no less real, the full fruits of which are vet to come. American observers of British conditions now describe them in terms of erreat hopefulness. They are convinced that the outcome of the strike is bound to result in a better spirit of co-opera-tion between Labour and Capital. The breakdown especially of the attempt of the “direct actionists” of the Lahoul movement to gain a vice-like hold on the British Press is heralded as the most gratifying feature of the recenc struggle-