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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 13, 1936
Page
3
A fragment recounts a bent old man in a brown coat begging in a Turkish town once home to the Dancing Dervishes. The mosque is a museum, Dervishes forbidden, raising questions of faith, charity, and the fate of religious communities under new legislation in Turkey.
The reporter describes the suppression of dervish orders in Turkey after Ataturk's reforms, noting the seizure of mosques and the shift to museums. He details turning dervishes in Konya, the Mevlvi order founded by Jalaluddin Rumi, and the spiritual, musical, and ceremonial aspects observed in the mosque headquarters.
A narrator tours a site once occupied by Mrs Hollingsworth and notes a Modern Optical Testing Room. He mentions a legend about a tomb, describes dervish quarters and a whitewashed library, and wonders how an 18th century George Prior clock with a musical box ended up in Asia Minor within a Mosque of the Dancing Dervishes.
Passengers on an oil launch ferrying two cars faced a near disaster when the vessel grounded on a sand bank near Forster and was swept by currents toward the Wallamba River mouth. A chain was used to steady the craft until a second launch aided the rescue, with the punt finally berthed around 8 30 p.m. It marked the second wash‑out of the punt in weeks, previously ending on oyster banks.
The number of horse drinking troughs in London is increasing and now stands at about 450. This reflects ongoing efforts to accommodate urban horses and their handlers amid growing city infrastructure.
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