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(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 7 The Daily Mail’s Riga correspondent says that after securing 10,000 cats to combat the mouse plague, Russian peasants are now battling with countless m.’l’ions of grasshoppers which are threatening to destroy 40,000 acres of crops. Several divisions of the Red Army have been told off to assist in their extermination. They are employing poison gas. STOCKHOLM, June 7. (Received June 8, 7.15 p.m.) An accident occurred on the Amur railway. A passenger train jumped the rails when passing over a bridge and the rear coaches fell into the river. Twenty-eight persons were killed and 40 injured, and 40 others are missing and are believed to be drowned.
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Southland Times, Issue 18963, 9 June 1923, Page 5
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