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.