A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS.
CAPE TOWN, April 50. (Received May 1, at 12.-40 p.m.) .Mafekiiig repots the possibility of an invasion of locusts oil an appalling scale from the Kalahari Desert. Travellers report that an enormous mass of insects 300 miles long is moving forward. The wells are choked, and vast areas are denuded of grain. The natives were forced to live on. w,ild melon'?. : —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17956, 1 May 1922, Page 6
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69A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS. Evening Star, Issue 17956, 1 May 1922, Page 6
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