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WAILING WALL.”

LAST REMNANT OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.

The Wailing Wa at Jerusalem

HÒNGKONG TELEGRAPH. OCTOBER 26th, 1929,

it has been regarded throughout the cen- · turies as the sacred remnant of a great epoch in Jewish life. It is, according to tradition, all that is left of Solomon's temple, which was erected 30 centuries ago,

there to pray.

Thousands go,

Three thursand years ago King) mobilised to prevent a sudden, that have made the tension worse. Solomon completed the great desparate recurrence of the an-. With their temple gone and the temple that.

become cient and violent Teud between very site it occupied forbidden to them, the Jews have made a famous throughout the world. Jew and Moslem.

sacred shrine of the exterior of Beside it he put up a huge stone

was to

Wall Alone Remains,

wall as a measure of protection: | The wall that Solomon built the wall itself. It is the famous the space within the wall was exprotect his temple is all that re-and revered Wailing Wall-a clusively for Jews, with Gentiles mains today of his handiwork, shrine sacred to the Jews since. restricted to the pavement out within, on the seret site of the Titus, destroyed the temple in the

temple, stands thegreat Mosque of year 63 A. D.

side.

G.B.S. · MAKES SOME CONFESSIONS.

Says He's a Bourgeoise Socialist.

Mr. George Bernard Shaw spoke for two hours recently to the members of the Independent Labour Party Summer School at Digswell Park, Welwyn, Hertford- ahire. During the time he made the following observations:

I am a bourgeoise Socialist and there is not one of you who could' he mistaken for a horny-handed son or daughter of toil,

There is hardly any class which understands the working-class less than our class does.

When I was a boy my father toll me that I must not speak to son of a retail tradesman. I re- ceived no instructions with regard to working people, because t nuver came into his head that would dream" of playing with people of that kind."

I am a very strong Socialist now in my 73rd year, but that is no guarantee that in my 75th year I may not be a rabid Conserva- tlve.

Among the first things that should be nationalized are the banks. The financiers now rule the roost and not the indus- trialists.

with themselves, others praying with extravagant gestures, with Biblical weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.

The Litany They Chant. There is a litany which devout Jews chant at the wall, after they have finished their prayers:

For the palace that is destroyed

We sit in solitude and mourn. For the walls that are over-

thrown

We sit in solitude and mourn For the majesty that is departad We sit in solitude and mourn.

to Zion;" May the Kingdom soon return

Today the situation is reversed, Ongir, which none but a Moslem Generation after generation of Gentiles, in the persons of Moslem may enter.. Outside is a barren Jews has come to the wall to offer! Araba--followers of a faith un-pavement, shadowed by the tower-prayers, confess sins, shed tears

Comfort those who mourn known in Solomon's day-passessing masonry of 30 centuries ago, and cherish hopes. Pilgrinis huve

over Jerusalem. the wall and all that it encloses. This circumstance, in itself, come from all over the world to

Oddly enough, there was less The Jews must congregate on the would be enough to provide the worship there. Some have carved starting point for plenty of their names on the stones; others?

candles to smoke trouble at the wailing' wall be- pavement outside,

This, probably, is the simplest trouble, in a region where there is have used way of explaining the background as much inhorn enmity to begin prayers on its surface. Worship- tween Jew and Moslem during the to the recent troubles in Pales with as there is in Palestine.pers are always there, day in and days when the Turks governed

where British tine,

foreca But there are additional factors lay out; some, quietly communing, ¿Continued on next Column).

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

BILLIE DOVE IN NEW POSE.

WINDJAMMER'S ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE.

A new and charming study of Billie Dove, the well-known First National star. Jerusalem than there has been thus bar, the Jews forever from shed because of the clash betweer

Jew and Moslem. their shrine." since.

In the days of the Turks, the Jews held divine services at the wall daily. A screen separated the male and female worshippers, the congregation overllowed oc- casionally into an adjacent, Arab garden, and no one over made trouble.

On that occasion, because of the Thus both groups have been kept hostile and suspicious, keyed especial significance of the day, up to a point where the slightest the Jewish worshippers had erect jar could bring about a bloodyed screens against the wailing collision such as has finally taken place.

Another Wailing Wall." . Second to the wailing wall at Jerusalem in importance is the wailing wall at Hebron, built near a cave in which Abraham is said to have buried his wife, Sarah. Unfortunately enough, conditions at Hebron are exactly parallel to, conditions at Jerusalem.

wall to segregate the sexes, ac cording to their ancient ritual The Moslems at once protested to Strictly the British Governor. speaking, the erection of the screens was in violation of the law; so the Governor ordered the police to remove them,

The Moslem police abruptly in- tore terrupted the service and down the screens. There

considerable blood- rioting and shed; the police used their clubs freely, and all of Palestine was stirred by the conflict.

After the World War, however, came the, Palestine mandate, the departure of the Turkish officials and the Jewish renaissance. The Arabs became fearful, and fore. saw a day in which the Jews would claim, not only, the wailing wall,

The Moslems are in possession but the Mosque of Omar itself. A

of the site of the tomb, and have report that the Jews were prepar- ing to build a synagogue against built a mosque upon it. Just as the outside of the wall brought, is the case in Jerusalem, the Jews

Thus, since the close of the at Hebron are not allowed to set in 1922, ruling from the Man-

World War, the walling 'wall al dates Commission of the League foot upon what is one of their

Jerusalem, together with its coun- most revered shrines; they can of Nations forbidding them even shelters,

Bitter only use the pavement outside the torpart at Hebron, has been a to 'erect temporary

wall, and can offer prayers there focal point for trouble, sereens or benches on the site.

rivalries and hatreds have cen- only under rigid restrictions. Lately it is the Jews that have

Bloodshed. Marked Clash, tered about it; always there has become suspielous. It has been

A year ago, on the great re- been there a situation which could reported that the Moslems were preparing to erect a new mosqueligious occasion of Yom Kippur, easlly develop into a dreadful on the outside of the wall and Jerusalem had a taste of blood-outburst of violence...

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The sailing ship "Grace Harwar" photographed in the South Atlantic during her voyage of 188 days from South Australia to Queenstown. Contrary winds forced her to change her course and pass through the Cook Straits. When she crossed the Equator after three months at sea provisions were running short, and the crew suffered much hardship. (Times copyright)

Another picture of the Grace Harwar, the last full-rigged ship in the Australlan trade and one of the large fleet of big sailing ships owned by Captain Gustaf Erikson, of Mariehamn Finland. She was built by W. Hamilton und Co. at Glasgow in 1883, and under the British flag she once made a passage from Chile to Falmouth without a bowsprit, which had been lost in a collision in the Chilean charbour, (Times copyright)

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