The question of turning over the Hedjas Railway to King Hussein, the New Caliph, has been the subject of conferences between King Hussein and Sir Gilbert Clayton, the Civil Secretary of the Palestine Government, at Amman. Hilmy Pasha has been appointed director of the railway.
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