JERUSALEM TREASURE HUNT.
•♦ PROFANATION OF SACRED PLACES. By Teleeraph—Press Associati-on-Copyrlslii London, May 4. One of the promoters of Captain Parker's expedition to search the rock passages near tho Pool of Siloam, at Jerusalem, for hidden treasure, regards the story cabled yesterday as n fabrication. Tho party's workings arc, he says, half a milo from tho Mosque, of Omar, which they were alleged to have profaned. A private letter received stated that digging operations had aroused tho fanaticism of the attendants at the mosque, who tried to lynch tho Sheikh of Khalil, belioving that he, being in charge of tho sacred places at night, had been bribed by the explorers. Renter's Constantinople correspondent states that a special commission appointed by tho Porte is investigating tho matter. He adds that great alarm was caused on April 21 by reports that the mosque had been profaned. The Governor's lifo was threatened. However, everything is now auiet.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 11110, 6 May 1911, Page 5
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