The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-21
HUNTING SACRED RELICS
IN VALLEY OF SLOAN
Captain Montague Parker ReneWs
Contract with Turkish Govern
ment for Exploration Right
Associated Press Special.

Jerusalem, August 21.-Word IS
received here that Captain Monta
que Parker expects to resume the
work of exeavating for sacred relies
in the Valley of Sloan in August
Meantime decision as to whether
the captains contract with he Turk
ish government can be technically
constructed to justify his operations
at the Mosque of Omar is awaited
v 18th interest
1t will be recalled that after mach
excavating had been done and some
: elics, it is claimed, recovered the
Y ork was interrupted by charges
that the explorers had violfed the
holy Mosque of Omar, obtaining &C
cess to it for the purposes OF eXca-
waiting by bribing its guardians.
Popular feeling was SO intense
against the foreigners that after
they had withdrawn, the govern
ment ordered the arrest of the guar
dams of the Mosque and pursued al
investigation into the cireumstan
ces of its alleged dissertation.
Now the contract between Parker,
representing an Anglo-American
syndicate and the Turkish govern
ment has come to lioht It's perusal
leaves one in doubt as to whether
the explorers can be shown TO have
exceeded their rights, but, on the
other hand, 1t furnishes unmls-ak-
able evidence that the captain Was
sanguine OF discovering rare treas
ures and that he financed the affaH
Hberally 1t also develops that the
| turkish government was partner
TO the transaction and was TO snare
in the spoils,
The contract contains twelve arti
cles, some of which are worth
reproducing 1t was signed on Octo- |
Der 26, 1908, by CAPTAIN Parker and !
Ziah Pasha the then minister of fin |
ance acting for the Turkish govern |
mant Article ono nrovidas that par
ker is to furnish all the necessary
funds and onerate in the name and
under the auspices of the Turkish
Article five has to do
with an extension of the contract in
10 matter of time by mutual con
sent In article eleven Parker re
leases the government of any DANA
ges growing ont of the possible fail :
ire of the entarnrisa Article twelve ;
provides that in case of a difference t
# oninion or misnnderstanine he.
,,.aop ~ zoo nartiae ~ anas+ioo {
.haI1 he submitted for decision 10 = /
.onmittaa Of four mon Amounted :
,oroII,, ~, ~ ,rrr1,ish o,a pri+ien !
,
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aot,,,sta3 500, 80 go
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l-en' ui,'ol .'Nes " VI mo" "a
80. 80 - - opSis' w e'l,''' -
tha sita ~, ~ '-'. a ~" @
odontina a,a,, ,aasorahIa ,,otta.,
,rocuring ana trarsforrino tho same
"a nc contoir wbetber nv riobt of
in tbe case of tho nronart,
,rIo,,rri,,,, 80 n,i,-ato i,di,,;d,,ois a.
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10 r,anapt',, baIa,,,,ina, ta ,n, oro,,,r
ArttoIo IN 800, pa,.,.l. =.
harah, honna 20 rofratn fraa cor,
,,anci,a his ono,atfons ,,,.,,.bara :.
the vicinity Of Teras,Ier until mo
transference or grant OF give.
piece of land is legally and properlg .
executed, and a wall erected about /
the same
BY the terms of this article TIA,
captain is Furthermore given the
privilege of excavating one full year
from the date OF his commencing
the operations, after the lapse of
which period the work OF excavation
must be discontinued unless n,
government should grant a further
lease OF the land and renew the priv
llege of excavation on condition thai
fthe captain petition the government
Tor the same, in which case Captain
Parker agrees 10 return the lahd TO
the government ana iorego ms cialoa
on all ana sundfy suCn implements,