TURKISH CROPS SPOILED.
BAINS AND LOCUSTS. POSSIBILITY OF FAMINE. (Received August 31, 11 30 p.m.)
London*, August 31.
A message from Mitylene states that unseasonable rains and locusts have damaged the crops in Asia Minor. The acrejige sown was only 60 per cent, of the average, and the scarcity of labour is preventing the garnering of ajl the existing cropsShould the war last till December the sowings will be still more scanty, and famine will be in sight.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16011, 1 September 1915, Page 8
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