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RUSSIA.
_—, —* PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS. SEHIOUS LOSS THREATENED. ! ——— I BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ' LONDON, June 7. ! The Daily Mail's lliga correspondent says that, after securing ten thousand cats to> combat" a mouse plaaue, Russian peasants are now battling" with countless millions of grasshoppers, which are threatening to destroy forty million acres of crops. Several divisions of the Red Army have been told off to assist in the extermination, employing poison gas.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 7
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69RUSSIA. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 7
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