RELIGIOUS CLASHES
MAUNDY THURSDAY IN JERUSALEM.
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.JERUSALEM, March 29. It became known to-day that two clashes marked Maundy. Thursday religious observances. One was- in tho C'liurcli of the Holy Sepulchre between Latins and Greeks, and the other was at David’s tomb,', between C'hr’stians and Moslems. Major Keith' Reach, Governor of Jerusalem, who was lunching with Mr. Rudvard Kipling, was called to settle the squabble at the Church of the Holy;Sepulchre,' at which trouble arose over tlie Latins’ claim that Hie Greeks trespassed -on* th.e- altar to which the- Latins;, had come lor the pontifical mass preceding the footwashing ceremony. The Governor ordered the Latins to wait nut 1 the Greeks had finished their services, and a serious conflict was, averted. Tlie Moslem and* Christian quarrel occurred when Franciscan monks arrived on their customary pilgrimage to David’s tomb, knqym as the Coenaeulum. It is v owned •-by a prominent Moslem' family, the sheik of wlvich refused to permit the monks’ entrance, and beat a Moslem relative who seemed to favor the monies.
The police ordered the monks to depart and closed the- premises.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10859, 1 April 1929, Page 5
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