IN HOLY LAND
PASSJONTJ DE D.ISPUTE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy r.gh t). JERUSALEM, March 29. It became known to-day that two clashes marked tho Maundy Thursday religious observances. One was in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre between Latins and Greeks. The other was rt David’s Tomb between Christians and Moslems. Major Keith Reach,* tho Governor of Jerusalem, who was lunching with Mr Rudyard Kipling, was called to settle a squabble at the Holy Sepulchre at which the trouble arose over the Latins’ claim that the Greeks had trespassed on the altar to which the Latins had come for the Pontificial Mass preceding the ceremony of the washing of the feet. Governor Reach ordered the Latins to wait until the Greeks had finished their inccnsation services, and a serious conflict was averted.
The Moslem-Christian quarrel occurred when the Franciscan Monks arrived on their customary pilgrimage to David’s Tomb, known as the Cocnaeulum. It is owned by a prominent Moslem family, the Sheik of which refused to permit the monks ail entrance and boat one of bis .Moslem relatives who seemed to favour the monks.
The police ordered the Monks to depart, and closed the premises.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1929, Page 2
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