PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS
DEVASTATING SOUTH RtJWTA
SOVIET TRIES 'PLAXE6 WITH
POISON GAS.
(United Pres» Association.—Coyyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) (Received 21st July, noon.)
RIGA, 20th J«ly.
The southern area of Russia is being devastated by a plague of locusts. One swarm, twenty-five kilometres in width, is sweeping up the Volga Valley, consuming everything. The Soviet authorities are sending military aeroplanes to scatter gases and. poisons among the pests. *
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 18, 21 July 1926, Page 9
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68PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 18, 21 July 1926, Page 9
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