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Show oo Spiriting Away of Sacred Treasures Causes an Uproar Jerusalem, Palestine, May 3. The Inhabitants have been aroused to tho point of rioting by the operations of a party of English archaeologists, who are accused of having excavated beneath be-neath the Inviolate mosque of Omar, and removed relics reputed to include tho Ark of the Covenant, tho Censer and other sacred vessels, which belonged be-longed to the tribes of Israel Izmy Bey, tho Turkish governor, was mobbed on tho streets for supposed sup-posed complicity in the profanation and hooted as "a pig." Tho mosque has been closed and closely guarded, pending the arrival from Constantinople Constantin-ople of the officials of the government who will make an Investigation. The expedition worked for two years, beginning at tho village of SI-loam, SI-loam, which lies at tho southeast end of Jerusalem, southern slopo of the Mount of Olives, overlooking tho valley val-ley of Hedron, and the pool of Slloam. The explorers arc credited with having hav-ing excavated a passage from the pool of Slloam toward the place where once stood Solomon's temple, built In 1012 B. C, pillaged and restored and finally destroyed by Titus A. D. 70 Failing to reach tho relics sought in this manner, the explorers, according to the alleged confessions of the guards of the mosque, bribed tho guards, entered the mosque and, after digging on six nights, spirited away treasures. "The whereabouts of which," says an Arnhlc paper, "none knew except God and these Englishmen." English-men." Myptery surrounds tho expedition, whose operations hnve been of such magnitude as to make It evident that a largo sum of money was Invested It Is reported that wealth English men and Americans formed a syndicate, syndi-cate, of which the Duchess of Marlborough Marl-borough (who was Consuelo Vnnder-bllt) Vnnder-bllt) was a member, on the strength of the locating of the relics by Scandinavian Scan-dinavian investigators. |