PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS
■ —*r : AN APPALLING THREAT. Press Association—-By Telegraph—Copyright I CAPETOWN, April 30. Reports from Mafeking suggest the posaibilitv of an invasion of locusts on an appalling scale from the Kalahari Desert. Travellers report " that -an ‘enormous mass of insects 300 miles long is moving, forward. The wells are .choked* vast areas are denuded of grain, and ;the natives are forced to live On l wild' melons.—A. and N.Z. Cable. i '■ —-——— •
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18543, 2 May 1922, Page 5
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72PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS Otago Daily Times, Issue 18543, 2 May 1922, Page 5
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