LOCUST PLAGUE
PROVIDENTIALLY DIVERTED
PROM PALESTINE AND SYRIA
TIMELY CHANGE OP WIND,
(United Press Assn. Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) JERUSALEM, February 6.
An almost miraculous change of wind saved Palestine and Syria, from a destructive visitation of locusts.
For months past the Government had anticipated a spring plague arid made elaborate preparations to combat the invasion.
A vast, swarming advance guard suddenly appeared near Petra, with the wind drifting them steadily towards Palestine. The defence was immediatly mobilised, including batteries of flame guns, when the wind veered and turned the invaders in the direction of the most barren and rockiest part of the desert, where .the insects are condemned to die of starvation. —A.P. A. and Sun.
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Northern Advocate, 8 February 1928, Page 5
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