Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), Monday 23 January 1933, page 1
YO-YO BANNED
IN SYRIA
Blamed For Drought
By Moslems
BEIRUT (Syria), January 21.
Drought and severe cold is disast-rously affecting the cattle in Syria, that has a and the Moslem chiefs at Damascus have attributed the wrath of the heavens to the recent introduction of the yo-yo.
They say that while the people are praying for rain to come down from above the yo-yo goes down, and yo before reaching the ground springs up through the subtle pull of the string.
The chiefs interviewed the Prime Minister, and exposed the evil influ-ence of yo-yos, so they were immedi-ately banned.
To-day the police paraded the streets and confiscated the yo-yos from everyone they saw playing with
them.