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Show HE WON'T BE "FIRED." State Department Considerably Worried Wor-ried Over Macrum. Washington, Jan. 24. The state department de-partment is finding it difficult to repudiate repu-diate Mr. Macrum. No less than three ; authoritative statements have been is sued to the effect that Mr. Macrum is not consul at Pretoria, or, in fact, in the United States consular service in any capacity, yet it appears he himself is under a different impression. The fact that the United States senate sen-ate confirmed a successor to Mr. Macrum Ma-crum as consul to Pretoria is regarded by the state department as sufficient evidence that he was thereby ousted, not only from his post at Pretoria, but entirely out of the service of the United States government. Through a statute intended to prevent consular officers from being left in the lurch at a distant ,n ... .,,, , , ujiil-ILI m Ji ".Ii .""I"! P U-MU..H il mm ! post, an allowance is made to pay ! traveling exoenses back to the United j States, which is technically regarded as consular pay in order to fall within the law. but any claim to a place in the consular service based on this allowance allow-ance would, it is said at the depart- j ment, be purely technical. j |