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Show SEARCHES 0F ANTIQUARIES RAISTSTORM English Archaeologists Are Accused of Desecrating Sacred Relics. JERUSALEM, Palestine, May S.-ihe S.-ihe inhabitante hava beea aroused to tha point of rioting by the operations of a party of English archaeologists who are accused of having excavated beneath tha inviolate Moaqna of Omar and removed relica reputed to include tha ark of covenant, tha censor and other aaered veeeele which belonged to tha tribea of Israel. Aeemv Bey, tha Turkish governor, waa mobbed on the streets for supposed complicity in tha profanation ana hooted hoot-ed aa "a pig." The moaqna baa been cloeed and ia eloaely guarded pending the arrival from Constantinople of the officials of he government, who will make aa investigation. Working at flUoam. Tha expedition worked for two years, beginning .at the village of ftiloem, which lies' at the aoutheaat end of Jerusalem, southern slope of the Mount of Olivea, overlooking the valley of He-dron He-dron and the pool of Siloam. I - The explorers aja ereduad with having hav-ing excavated a passage from tha pool of Siloam toward the place where once stood Solomon a temple, built in 1012 B. ., pillaged ami restored and finally destroyed by Titua, A. D. 70. Failing to reach tha relica sought in this manner, the explorer, according to the alleged confessions of the guards of tha mosque, bribed tha guards, entered en-tered the mosque and after digging on six nlghta, spirited awav the treasures "the wbereabonta of which," aaya an Arabic paper, "none knew except fiod and those English.." Kyatary Burroundi Expedition. Mystery surrounds tha expedition, whose operations hava been of such magnitude aa to make it evident that a large sum of money waa Invested. It ia reported that wealthy Englishmen and Americana formed a syndicate of which tha dueheaa of Marlborough (who waa C'oBBuelo Vanderbilt) waa a member mem-ber on the etrength of the location of tbe relica by Scandinavian inveatiga-i tors. |