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ERNEST MAIN describes procession by which of Islam

•

a grisly annual

division a great

remembers its lost leaders

THE MOSLEMS MOURN

T

A LOST BATTLE

With hundred CAIRO, Oct. 22.

of men simultaneously, the TODAY, October 22, doing this

wound travels for quite incredible the Moslem distances, is in

They deliver the calendar the 10th day blows with their full force, and Jong the breast નવ of the month of Moharran, before

lacerated and bleeding.

Shinh

It is the day of mourning for millions of Moslems. The Shlah lems are one of the

monotonous dirges, and at the words "Ali, Hussein" they bring their sword's edge down against their foreheads, but without ever touching them.

By about an hour or so before dawn, the procession has made The groups of men with then its way to the biggest mosque Mos-guments

the of the town, and there they listen cut lo expose

highly emotional sermons, are the chain to grent shoulder blades

tu rises the fanaticism and flagellants. Led by their group

pitch. The hoarse fervour

Have We Been Too Timid In Tackling TB?

PARIS. fences so that protective agents.

TB

As I watched the whites against ntinck by virulen B smocked French girls germs Bro formed In the slicing potatoes at the blood. famous Pasteur Institute These agents to not glve But cx- here, it seemed ridiculous complete protection.'

periments carried out in many that a bowl of raw chips countries have convinced doc- could be the means of sav- tors that BCG vaccine

at least ing the lives of perhaps n halves the risk of catching TB hundred children.

for people with little natural resistance.

But it was true, Those potato slices were the starting point in the manufac

ture of the anti-tuberculosis

Results:

FORTNIGHT ឆ៩០ MA

veccine called BCG, Only In A Sweden I learned how the

Britain, where tuberculosis

veems to be Incrending, Is there use of BCG

any strong doubt that BCG

there Had cut

is down the number of TB cases

effective in preventing the so much that Stockholm -

disease.

I was astonished at the extent to which BCG is belug used In France, Vaccination with It is compulsory for every Service recruit and every hospital nurse who, on the evidence of akin tests, has ttle natural rc- sistance to T.B.

Nearly 3,000,000 chil- dren have been im- munised,

Soon the vaccine will

foria can now lake in foreign

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be compulsory for every new patients. In Denmark big-scale born French baby, Later, the use of BCO has

practically

T.B. prevention scheme is to eliminated tuberculous menin- be extended to include every gitis-the most killing form of zchoolchild who has not de- TB in children. veloped natural realstance.

Wider range

THE man in charge of

the

Meanwhile, in Britain, where 400 people dle from TD crery Medieni Research week, the

Council hes just begun a limit- ed trint of BCG with supplies

plant making the vaccine, Imported from Denmark. lean, brown-eyed Dr Frederio

The trial will last three

Van Delnse, tok! me of an ex- years. Until it is completed the citing new

great project.

advance in

this reneral use of BCC will not be

sanctioned. No arrangements are being made to manufacture

It is a method of making the the vaccine. vaccine in a dry form which can be stored up to a year

with the

This backwardness is not the Its protective fault of the doctors who dally restrain themselves any longer, without losing

1lquld vaccine come face to face bring their swords down each on power. (The their own heads, cutting upon had to be used within a fort- ravages of tuberculosis. Many of them have been fighting for night of making). the brow, so that their white shruud-like

This means that the vaccine the full-scale use of BCG for become Karments

enn now be made available to years. scarlet in the light,

nalive populations in distant Britain's slowness in follow-

Anti-Climax

territorien. Aircody

hundreds

of thousands of people in the ing the French lead is in- advisers who Belgian Congo and the Philipfluenced by a few Medical le-

search Council Enve all along THEN comes the sudden, oven pines have been protected with

opposed the offering dramatic, anti-climax. All the it.

vaceino without

boy virtue has gone out of them. Dr Van Deinse, eager to ex alternative.

work

divisions into which Islam teaders, they also chant dish chanting conliatres, the broast All-their-emotion is purged and plain the 30 years ol

Hr divided. They broke away and at the recurreal words

thelr

תם

Why wait?

One of their main objections a few years after the death Hussein!" they swing their chain beating and the flagellation be- as they will naively tell you which Pasteur Institute scien- of the Prophet as the result scourge over

shoulders come more violent, and the men afterwards they feel the belter lists have put into their ambl is that injeeling live germs in-

Hlour BCG experiment, for it.

took to the human body is risky, people of a battle fought in the right and left alternately, and with the swords get more and

me Into the locked incubator Yet nearly 10,000,000 falls heavily on their backs, more beside themselves, It is,

where, their way home

through glass have been vaccinated with BCG year 640 at Kerbela, which the scourge they use has a handle

room They make ecstasy of self literally.

from the mosque, and after panels, WC could

the abroad without any ill-efects. tee is about 100 miles South- about nine or ten inches long torture.

colonies of TB with a chain like a cat-o'-nine- west of Baghdad.

At last, when the watcher on having their wounds annointed cream-yellow

growlug on potato that dawn by their women folk they resume pers talls. This incirument very soon

con the minaret shouts

ordinary

work-a-day slees. blood, Ind 23 the has come, the fanatical frenzy their It is the result of this battle draws

TN They are too weak to cause climax. The self chores. In all probability your through the rises to its which they still lament during procession passeS

who brings you your the disease when injected into the ten days of the month of town, taking most of the night immolation gets more and more servant Moharran, the grief ring to a 10 du so, many of the devotees insistent, and as the light breaks. breakfast has been in the night's the human body. But they are strong enough to alert the de- drop out

to grisly procession. fanatic climax tonight

through fainting and the aword exhaustion. They are succoured by the crowds with water and, herbs and soon take their place in the procession again.

The sound of the breast beat ing carries for miles on still night. If you are out of the lown, you can hear tht fall of hundreds of chain scourges upon bare backs. It is the night of the 10th of Moharran, when the Shinhs mourn their alla leaders, THEN comes a series of sym- All and Hussein, and recall

bolic representations of the symbolically the fragic in incidents of the battle; for

The Camel

The

an

1

OF onial, camel

men,

unable

THAT OLD MEAN A

cover.

BOOK MAY BOOK FORTUNE

has hands for

ot

Bible.

Five hundred copies

were

my view the Medical Re- search Council is much loo high-handed in its approach to foreign medical advances.

It held up the use of strep- tomycin in Britain for months, although competent French and American researchers hnd proved beyond doubt that the drug could save the lives of children stricken with tuber- culous meningitis.

Now the council Is faced with overwhelming evidente in favour of another foreign dis- covery for which there is no alternativo-BCG,

What I have learned here.

AT 2.30, 5.20.cidents of that stricken field at instance, the riderless camel. In 7.20 & 9.30 Kerbeln thirteen centuries ago..come towns this camel is re-

OCKED in musty cup- Is shown by only a dot on the the prices of the Doves Press presented

horse with by

in Hongkong, boards The Jast ten days

these imitation hump harnessed to its forgotten in attic trunks, it mourning loslems, discarding back.

In Paris, an early copy

of printed 40 years ago, and the has convinced me that by slag- their normal white garments,

original price of this elegant ing a three-year trial, instead have been going about dressed horse, is led by two men, and is believed that hundreds of Montaigne's Essays, priced

just production was 15 quincas of accepting the evidence of 30 in black. Night after night it represents the camel riduen rare books await discovery only £30 in 1934,

the Second-hand at muction, the

experience. they imve gathered in the by one of the leaders who lost books that can be trans- changed

the Medical Research Council mosques, listening to the recital his life. Then comes the horse formed today into much ostonishing sum of £1,000, and took then fetched £7 and the years of French

first editions of novels by Ano- price eventually fell as low as

doctors are not of woe. Tonight they assemble et camel carrying an enormous needed American dollars.

only wasling formerly tole France,

worth £3. After the 1918 war, how-

time ogoln but risking lives. In great processions,

ever, market espies had become rarer-and the suction price jumped to £20. Then its rise was steady till, in 1927, 11 sold for £80. In the 1020 boom it sonred to £130. In the slump It dropped to £85, then all the way down to £25 in 1939.

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Great Britain. The seller was 20 or 25, each group with it: have been married on the day of

ዩ። the group leader. Some are stripped the battle and this represents the pleared-and

lealer. In New York, it even to the waist; others have holes bridal bed which he never oc-

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£300). The joke ta that for robes, exposing the shoulder

Then comes a grotesque figure. gotten coples are still hoarded blades. Already you can see

mounted. It is a devotee within family bookcases. that all of them are in a state of

face

wenring painted white, high exaltation, which makes it

Large old books with colour- advisable to the non-believer to dark glasses and a sun heimet.

birds, flowers, old and costumes; watch from behind curtains. Not Legend has that a European en plates of

like novels a woman is to be seen, although was in the neighbourhood on the you can hear their drill uluta day of the battle, and when he three-volume

East Lynne and Lady Audley's tions from the darkened the plight of the little amy

Secret: books personally signed of Ali and Husseln, he joined by Iamous authors, windows.

200- the fray on their side, but was killed. The The procession comes along at

10

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sportingt books

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only 10% or so, have soared to

100 and £103. Again, London,

nursery-

have

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Recently, three coples thumbed Arst edition of Alfce been out the markel. And they in Wonderland has just fetch have all fetched more

books cd £1,025 under the hammer. £150.

сору

are

than

But if modern

first more in your line.

similar risca. of editions show Even the printed

the Forty years ago, Arnold Ben- The Pickwick Papers in

nett's The Old Wives Tale was paris may original monthly

in the bookshops nt 75. Gd. and even if you Today clean coples are worth elch £250, RVC only the much more com-

C100. First edlions of certain man first

volume edition, books by Wells, Barrie, Gals- worthy, Kipling and Somerset Maugham are equal rarities.

13 known they are all potential treasures, may be worth £20.

One book exporter, Raphael

acain Il is held up by the groups as the Farrengi of Frank, whose King, caught sight of a slender of men breaking from the march heroic help his thus been com- to form into circles, each man memorated every year down the with his left arm around his centuries by the grateful Shiats. Then comes the grizliest part neighbour's shoulders, with the group leader in the middle ut of the grim procession.

How can you tell a first edi- the ring. They chant drxes for groups of men' come along, this their lost leaders, and at each time clad in white from head tion? Often you can't, save by cry of "All Iussein!" best to fool. Those are the sword expert knowledge, and not all their left breast, with the pain men. As they form circles, like "Brats" are valuable. The £10 of their right hand in unison.

others, they chant their look of The Prisoner of Zenda,

the

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Arst edition or stall. It was a

a turmoiled scramble of ris- You are unlikely to nourish Shakespeare 1221- Omar Khayyam, and he told it ing prices. Money, the buyers a valuable to America for £2,000.

fair wares on your bookshelf. On eensider, has proved a weather friend and it is sound the other hand, 1wa early to hedge by coples of Bunyan's Plgrim's financial policy

surplus capital In Progress came up in the Lon- investing

year, books. Book prices, in fact, are dan auction-room last it virtual economis index, Take and were for £4,400 and £1,- the fluctuating but characteris- 860.

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