THE MOSQUE IN OMAR.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10763, 10 May 1911, Page 4

THE MOSQUE IN OMAR.

DESECRATION BY ENGLISHMEN

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright,

(Per Press Association.)

Beceived May 10, at 9.50 a.m

I r ;. }< ._ ... May ,9. An excited debate took place in.-the Chamber. ■ -The of the Interior stated that a former Grand Vizier had granted the explorers the right to excavate two passages, but permission to make a third atfempt from the sanctuary of the Mosque of Omar was refused. The explorers then corrupted the officials and violated the sanctuary..

The baggage of the Englishmen, was searched at Jaffa, but it contained no proof of thefts. . , Captain Parker, interviewed, said all the antiquities found in Jerusalem were handed to the Turkish authorities.