DROUGHT AND YO-YO
SYRIAN CHIEFS WORRIED PROHIBITION OF GAME LONDON, Jan. 2'2 Drought and severe cold are disastrously affecting the cattle in Syria, and Moslem chiefs in Damascus, according to the Beirut correspondent of the Times, have attributed the wrath of the heavens to the recent introduction of yoyo.
They declared that while the people are praying for rain to come down from above, the yo-yo goes down, but, before reaching the ground, springs up through the subtle pull on a string.
The chiefs interviewed the Prime Minister of the republic, to whom they exposed the evil influence of the yo-yo, which thereafter was prohibited, police parading (he streets and confiscating yoyos from players. The drought continues.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21404, 31 January 1933, Page 9
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