SOLDIERS FIGHT LOCUSTS
PLAGUE^IN SOUTH FRANCE
United Service. v PARIS, May 13. The inhabitants of a wide area outside Toulon are making frantic efforts to arrest the advance of an army of locusts that is eating the country bare- The services of have been enlisted, and enormous quantities of chemicals are used, yet the army of insects sweeps on. German flame throwers have been obtained, . and these promise to be a most effective I weapon.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17782, 16 May 1921, Page 5
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75SOLDIERS FIGHT LOCUSTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17782, 16 May 1921, Page 5
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