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THE KING’S PROGRESS. (British Official) Wireless). (Received,.this day at noon.) RUGBY, October 22. It is eight weeks since the King went to Sandringham from Buckinguam Palace following lAs second opoperation. The fact that lie is able to shoot again is regarded as v further proof of progress towards complete recoveiy, and last month it was announced that the King's, stay at Sandringham had so greatly expedit. ed recovery that he had begun again to take fairly long rides on horseback.
The King has approved of the •appointment, of General Sir Philip Chetwdde to be Commander-iu-Uuei of India in succession/ to hYeid-Mar-shail bir William Bhdwocd.
With His Majesty’s approval, the Secretary for India has mvYted General Liiiiwood, who will complete the five year tenure of his appointment on sth August, 1930, to serve a furciier period of three months from that date..
According to press messages from Nairobi Sir Dav.d Gfigg,. Governor of Kenya Colony, had a tour of the territory of the Masai and Lumbiva tribes, inquiring into reports of a tendency for trouble between these tnbes. Grigg made a statement' on the subject to the Legislative Council to-day. He said there was always a danger of a collision between Masai and Lumbiva tribes, which are truclitonally antagonistic. Young warriors of both tribes have been gathering without .permision of their chiefs and as a result there have been an increasing number of cattle thefts, burglaries and disorder. A general attitude of hostility to European settlers is unlikely hut the police mere drafted into Lumbiva territory and a company of the King’s African Rifles ’have been ordered to patrol Masai territory. The carrying of arms is prohibited in the vicinity of the boundary between the two native territories.
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