ARMY OF LOCUSTS
«ias—— FRANTIC EFFORTS TO CHECK ADVANCE. Australian and N. 7 fable Association. LONDON, May 13. , _ The inhabitants of a wide area outside Toulon are making frantic efforts !to arrest the- advance of an army of locusts -which are eating the country bare. The services of soldiers have been enlisted, and enormous quantities of chemicals have been used, yet the army of insects sweeps on. German : flame-throwers have been obtained, and prom se to be the most effective , weapon available.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10901, 16 May 1921, Page 6
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82ARMY OF LOCUSTS New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10901, 16 May 1921, Page 6
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