MECHANISED
Warfare on rats in Sydney has been mechanised. The handy men who used to keep down these pests at their workplaces are now on war jobs. Their places have been taken by women, and the experts say that women are not so good, as ratcatchers. The rat population is overrunning city 'buildings, so the official ratcatchers have had to improve their technique to keep pace. Their most effective weapon is a tommy gun firing cyanide. Six of them killed 114 rats in less than half an hour in one city basement.
" You can't miss," says one of the operators. " Once you get a line on a rat he's dead."
There is also a hand grenade containing insecticide. In three seconds it kills the fleas which bite the rats which carry the plague—and so on,
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Evening Star, Issue 25083, 26 January 1944, Page 7
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135MECHANISED Evening Star, Issue 25083, 26 January 1944, Page 7
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