IT JERUSALEM

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 April 1929, Page 5

IT JERUSALEM

RELIGIOUS SQUABBLES. TWO REPORTED YESTERDAY SETTLED WITHOUT TROUBLE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association—United Service.) JERUSALEM, March 29. It became known to-day that there were two clashes at Market Moundy on Thursday’s religious observances. One was in the Church of Holy Sepulchre between Latins and Greeks, and the other was at David’s tomb between Christians and Moslems.. Major Keith Reach, Governor of Jerusalem, who was lunching w r itli Sir Rudyard Kipling, was called to settle the -squabble at the sepulchre, at which trouble arose over the Latins’ claim that the Greeks had trespassed on the altar to which the Latins had come for Pontifical mass, preceding the footwashing ceremony. Hie Governor ordered the Latins to wait until theGreeks had finished their incensation services, and a serious conflict was averted. The Moslem-Christan quarrel occurred when Franciscan monks arrived ,on their customary pilgrimage to David’s tomb, known as Coenaculun i, owned by a prominent jStoslem 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 the premises.