THE HOLY CITY
RELIGIOUS FACTIOUS CLASH
fiess Association —liy Telegraph —Cooyrish*
JERUSALEM, March 29
It became known to-day that two clashes marked the Maundy Thursday (Thursday in Holy Week) religions observa nce>.
OllC was in tile clilli'cll nl ilie Holy Sepulchre between tlie Latins mid the Creeks, mul the other w< at David’s tonih, liotween the Clirislimis mul the Mo- lenis.
Major Keith Reach, the Governor ol .Jerusalem, who was lunching with Mi Rndyard Kipling, was railed to settle the squabble at. tlio Sepulchre. at which trouble arose over the. Latins’ claim that the Greeks trespassed on the altar, to wliich the Latins had come lor Pontilieia) Mass preceding the loot-washing ceremony. The Governor ordered the Latins to wait until the Greeks had finished their inconsatioii services, and a serious conflict was averted. The Muslom-Christimi quarrel occurred when Franciscan monks arrived on their customary pilgrimage to David’s tomb, known ns the Coenaeuluni. It is owned by a prominent Moslem family, the sheik of wliich refused to permit the monks an entrance and heat a Moslem relative who seemed to favour the monks. The police ordered the monks to depart, and closed (he premises.—Australian Press Association
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Evening Star, Issue 20138, 1 April 1929, Page 6
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195THE HOLY CITY Evening Star, Issue 20138, 1 April 1929, Page 6
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