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MIDDLESEX. Factoriesalsoat LISSEN LIMITED RichmondWORPLE(Surrey),andEdmonton. (ManagingDirector:T.N.COLE.) '/32 WORLD -RADIO Official Foreign and Technical Journal of the B.B.C. Registered at the G.P.O. Vol. IX.No. 229. as a Newspaper. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13,1929 THREE PENCE (War', Osh.. " ... Winter comes to rule the varied year PRINCIPAL CONTENTS Seeing Without Sight C. G. PHILP Christmas in Jerusalem as I Saw it "Scientific" Christmas Fun RALPH STRANGER Sirdar IKBAL ALI SHAH Christmas Customs and Traditions- A Wanderer Stares into the Camp Fire LOUIS GOLDING Norway, Czechoslovakia, Germany If I Were Dictator.... VERNON BARTLETT Jungle Lure MARIAN ROBERTS A Christmas Trip to Devi's Island Capt. ARTHUR MILLS Glimpses of Egypt C. FALCON To a Wild Rose WILLIAM MACKAY A New Zealand December Morning J. T. CRAWFORD Vitamin "P" ARTHUR COMPTON-RICKETT A Short Wave Adaptor Tuning Coils and Condensers Tall Stor'es MORLEY ROBERTS The Technique of Broadcasting : Choosing Sites for Transmitters Relics of Paganism in Europe J. E. PRYDE-HUGHES L.F. Intervalve Coupling An Efficient Crystal Set Ginger Revisits the Opera JAY COOTE Danish Listeners' Plebiscite 940 WORLD -RADIO DECEMBER 13TH, 1929 Wandering round the city I came upon the Jews' Wailing Place.Superficially, it is nothing Christmas in Jerusalem but a block of stones some fifteen feet long to about five feet high, the celebrated western wall as a Moslem Saw it of the Temple ; but spiritually it seems to have a deep significance to those who clung to it By Sirdar IKBAL ALI SHAH. more fondly than mothers cling to their only children.It was a Friday ; white -bearded men, Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah is the well-known Afghanbeggars, but to receive the " breath of the faith-shaven and shorn youths, women and children, traveller and author whose writings in European ful " after the devout had prayed Thside.Theywept against the stone. A woman cried so and American journals have attracted world-wide might regain their sight thuswise by the " piousbitterly that in another moment I could have attention.His views on various sides of Oriental breath of some accepted one," they thought.joined her.A man selling oil to the mourners life are, therefore, of more than ordinary interest. Sacred pictures from Hebron, glass bracelets there appeared to have passed beyond weeping, WHEN, as a Moslem pilgrim,I drew and olive -wood toy camels they would sell me, and helped others in their prayers. nearer and nearer Jerusalem, a mingled too. Just behind the Moslem quarterIentered feeling of joy and respect came upon Immediately inside the church they bowedthe noble sanctuary of the Dome of the Rock me. The passing crowd then became to melow, many kissed the Stone of Anointing, andby, one of its seven gates.Since Kalif Abdul a living, pulsating pageant of early religion, and they were respectful.In the Rotunda square Melik built the Dome of this edifice and Sultan the holy Dome of the Rock framed in the pillars support a dome-which was then underSalahuddin restored it, the Shrine of the Red sycamore avenue spoke of a different epoch. repair-and although it might be a disappoint-Rock had seen pilgrims from every part of the Giant bells were tolling somewhere, but theirment compared to what one sees in European globe.I reached the building by eight flights clang struck upon my ears in no material tone.cathedrals, it is not exactly masonry that is of of steps. The porticoes stand gracefully in " So this is Al Quds !-Jerusalem the Holy," consequence.The spirit of the place matteredtheir indescribable glory at the top of each. I said, " of which Allah Himself speaks in Histo me. Up on one of the galleries they were Coloured tiles cover the octagonal sides, and the Book ; ". and lifted my hands in prayer ofchanting so beautifully that the accompanimentcupola rises to ro8 feet.The Holy Koran is thanksgiving, for had the Prophet of Meccaof a musical instrument would have killed its inscribedin Arabesque uponit,simplicity not made his night journey from here to the soul.Egyptian Christians, clad in their native blended with magnificence around the Red Celestial Throne ? Rock inside ; chandeliers and lamps There was a nip in the sunlit air that hung in the arches were but of the city, as I walked from shrine material signs of devotion, and pious to shrine,during that Christmas history of my faith was writ large week. Negotiatingitsnarrow on that mass of solid rock, apparent bazaarsswanning withnationals onlytotheeyesofafaithful from Poland to Java, I noticed the There is nothing like it in the world miracle of the town in so far as to a Mosle:...1, unless it be the Shrine -despite twenty-two sieges, which of Mecca.That intensesilence must have destroyed Jerusalem of moved me to tears, the .message of Solomon and of Jesus-this city the Prophet I felt forcibly-all else still occupies its original site since was void ;in the heart of that stone it was first chosen nearly 3,000 years were buried annals of a thousand ago.