The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1911. AN ALLEGED DISCOVERY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 113, 4 July 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1911. AN ALLEGED DISCOVERY.

According to the latest Homo flics the Moslem riot, which took place some little time ago in Jerusalem, was started by the rumour that some British treasure-hunters had found under Solomon’s Temple, or Herou’s Temple, now the Mosque el Umar, wonderful treasures, such us Solomon'’* crown, the Ark of the Covenant, and the golden candlestick. The ’ Independent” considers that they could have found the Ark ns quite impossible. it was not in the .second Temple, nor its contents, particularly, the tablets of the law. Inasmuch as Titus took with him the golden candlestick when lie captured Jerusalem, it cannot be any part of the English plunderers’ asserted loot. History tells us that it suffered several captures, and was lust heard of as carried to Persia when CJiosroes sacked Constantinople. The same paper gods on to say that it was ‘‘a treasurehunting expedition pure and simple, an absolute disgrace to English civilisation. These people came to Jerusalem in 1909 with a permit from Constantinople to acquire land and to erect a hospital or a school. They were, however, accompanied bv two members of Parliament at a .salary of £IOO apiece a month, and it was genially understood that they were looking for the treasure of the Israelite kings. They have lived in the greatest secrecy ; they have spent enormous sums of money, and have been eloarmg out mostly the old tunnels and excavations iu the Si loam neighbourhood.” Another English paper states t-I.H’t they wci’G jiciiup* on clues jaivoji by a certain cipher found by a* Finnish .meter of Viborg in the'Book of Ezekiel.