A Swarm of Locusts
While travelling in the desert in Palestine, Miss M. Moore had an unusual experience which she related to members of the Business Girls’ Lunch Club recently. The party travelled by car with an escort of two Arab policemen and after journeying for several days almost to the land of Sinai they ran into a swarm of locusts. Until then Miss Moore said she had no idea what a plague could be. Of the hugeness of the aerial swarms it was difficult to form any conception but of their ravages tho prophet Joel gave a vivid and accurate description. There was a vast army out to kill' these locusts, Miss, Moore said, fire flame trenches filled with lime being some of the methods adopted. The swarm lasted for months and it cost £43,000 fighting it, the speaker said. But had these measures not been taken the whole countryside would have been devastated.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6625, 11 August 1931, Page 9
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155A Swarm of Locusts Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6625, 11 August 1931, Page 9
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