THE HOLY CITY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 73, 30 March 1929, Page 7

THE HOLY CITY

CLASH OF RELIGIONS

GOVERNOR INTERVENES

CONFLICT AVERTED

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It became known, to-day that two clashes marked the Maundy Thursday religious observances. One was in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre between Latins and Greeks. The other was at David's Tomb between Christians and Moslems. Major Keith Beach, Governor of Jerusalem, who was lunching with Mr. Rudyard Kipling, was called on to settle the squabble at tho sepulchre, lhc trouble arose over the Latins' claim that the Greeks trespassed on the altar, to which Latins had come for Pontifical Mass, preceding a foot-washing ceremony. Tho Governor ordered the Latins to wait until the Greeks had finished their incensation services, and a serious conflict was averted.

The Moslem-Christian quarrel occurred when Franciscan monks arrived on (heir customary pilgrimage to David _s Tomb, known as " Coenaculum." It is owned by a prominent Moslem family, the sheik of which refused to permit the monks entrance, and beat a Moslem relative who seemed "to favour the monks. The police ordered the monks to depart, and closed tho premises.