GENERAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Age, 29 March 1920, Page 7

GENERAL ITEMS

ALMOST FORGOTTEN. Alone, almost forgotten by s the world, King Peter of Serbia lives, surrounded by a few faithful officers, at Phaleron, a few minutes' ride from Athens, says an American correspondent. The king is suffering from paralysis, and passes most of his time in one i room of a small house overlooking the sea dotted with the lateen sails of Greek fishermen. Occasionally a courier arrives from Belgrade bringing word to the old man from his son, Prince Regent Alexander. King Peter still takes an active interest in world events, despite his physical condition. Occasionally he rides down to Athens when he learns, that a fresh batch of mail and dispatches for him has arrived. On these trips he is assisted into a side car attached to a motor cycle, as he prefers this simple conveyance to the automobile. King Peter Uvea the simple life at Phaleron. He rises early and retires at sunset. His food is the simplest possible. His home is very modest in all its appointments. DEATH OF "BATTON SAHIB." The death of Warburton Sahib, or "Button Sahib," the super-detective of the Punjab, is reported by a correspondent of the Times. He was an Afghan, his mother, a relative of the King of Kabul, being the wife of one of the Ameer's high officials. She and her infant son were abducted by Robert Warburton, a young ensign of artillery, during the occupation of Kabul by the British. After his mother had been divorced she Tnarried her Lochnivar, and the hoy was renamed John Paul Warburton. A half-brother was born, who afterwards became Sir Robert Warburton, author of "Eighteen Years in the Khyber." "Button S,ahib" was the magician whom Kipling' 8 Strickland, in "Plain Tales from the Hills," was "foolish enough to,take for a model." Tim© after time he broke up and brought to justice bands of dacoits and mur--1 derers, hired assassins, and professional poisoners, till his exploits became legendary.