11 NOVEMBER 1916, Page 2

The Cairo correspondent of the Times says in last Saturday's

paper that the pilgrims who have just returned from Mecca were highly satisfied with the improvement of the conditions there. Since the removal of Turkish ride. the Grand Sherif has notably developed the hygienic safeguards for the pilgrims, and the immunity from plague and cholera was remarkable. Moreover, the pilgrims were not troubled along their route in the Hecljaz by the sort of robbery and battery which prevailed under the Ottoman regime. The Grand Sherif, in fact, seems to have earned high opinions for his enlightenment from all the pilgrims, whether they were Egyptians or Indians or inhabitants of the Hedjaz itself.