RELIGIOUS STRIFE
MOSLEM IRRITATION SEQUEL TO CONFERENCE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.' ' JERUSALEM, April 14. Moslems at Gaza 'waited as a deputation ..on the district ..officer seeking permission to hold a dcnioßStratiou against the" recent missionary conference, but permission was. refused. In the meanwhile a'rumor spread that .the. deputation had been arrested, and 400 Moslems surrounded .the polieo barracks,' where only 20 police word., oh duty. An officer gave the order to fire, and two of. thc/_ attackers -were slightly wounded. The attack then fizzled out.
This is the .culmination of the Mos,-. lorn irritation, allegedly- needlessly caused by lack of .tact among mis---sionarv conference officials.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16623, 16 April 1928, Page 7
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