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Recently this state of affairs was stigmatized as "intolerable!" by peppery Baron Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer of Messines and of Bilton, who has been British High Commissioner to Palestine since 1925. He prescribed a remedy: more British troops. He had tested his prescriptions in 1918-19, when, with the rank of Field Marshal, he commanded the Second British Army occupying the German Rhineland. Methods which reduced Germans to submission ought to be good for Arabs...
Last week Lord Plumer's prescription went unheeded, and his resignation was accepted by the King-Emperor, who appointed to succeed him another old soldier, but less peppery, Lt.-Col. Sir John Robert Chancellor, 58, Scotch, a veteran of the Indian and World Wars, and, since 1923, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, Africa...
Honor was done to brown Umberto, however, by three personages: 1) British High Commissioner for Palestine Baron Plumer, who entertained him at Government House; 2) Patriarch Monsignor Barlassina (Roman Catholic), who donned a great purple robe and blessed Umberto; 3) good Father Aurelio Marotta "Custodian of the Holy Land and Guardian of the Holy Sepulchre" (Roman Catholic), who led His Royal Highness into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and showed him an empty tomb...
Another part of Government House, in which were the apartments of High Commissioner Baron Plumer,* was completely shaken down. He, lucky, was in England last week...
...Field-Marshal Baron Plumer is virtually "self-made." From 1876 onward he rose steadily through the ranks of officers until, in 1915, he commanded the Second British Army, in France, at the victorious action of Messines during the Third Battle of the Marne. Accordingly he was created Baron Plumer of Messines after the War, and granted £30,000. As A. D. C. General to the King, during part of the War, Field-Marshal Plumer won the liking and confidence of His Majesty, George V, who subsequently appointed him Governor of Malta 1919-24, and in 1925, High Commissioner...