The first hint of a possible split in the Moslem Conference meeting here came to-day, with the refusal of the Egyptian delegates to accept nominations to any of the Conference Committees. The Felestin”, the organ of the Palestine Arab Executive, gives it as its opinion to-day that the present Conference should be regarded as only a preliminary to a bigger and better Congress to be held proferably in Egypt.
It is generally conceded that the Mufti has lost the support of the Egyptian and Indian delegates, including Shaukat Ali, whose non-election to any office except the Chairmanship of the Organic Law Committee, is being discussed widely. Another Indian Moslem delegate, Sir Iqbal Shah, has expressed himself most critically of the idea of a Moslem University in Jerusalem, considering Jerusalem unsuitable and the present time unripe. The Conference has, nevertheless, decided in favour of a Moslem University in Jerusalem.
After an address delivered to the Conference to-day on the sanctity to Moslems of the Buraq (wailing Wall), all the delegates swore to defend all Moslem Holy Places with all their power.
An all-day debate took place on the question of the Hedjaz Railway, which was built to carry pilgrims to Mocca, and a resolution was adopted demanding the return of the railway to the Moslems and declaring that if this is not done with in six months Moslem opinion will appeal to the League of Nations, and if this fails, the Moslem world will boycott all British, French and all other European goods.
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