ARMY FIGHTING LOCUSTS
' PLAGUE OF SINAI PENINSULA.
FLAME-THROWERS UNAVAILING
By Telegraph—Brew Assn. —Copyright.
Rec. 5.5 p.m. Cairo, April 23. Despite the Government’s re-assurances the locust plague on the Sinai Peninsula grows more serious. Troops are using flame-throwers with which a raking firo is being directed fromr trenches dug across the line of the insects’ progress, but they are unable to stem the shimmering tide. Meanwhile the plague continues in the Nile Valley where the Government has forcibly enrolled labourers. The position in Trans-Jordania is even worse and 75,000 persons have been conscripted to fight the locusts. Altogether a third of the available population has been engaged in this grim battle for three months. A
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1930, Page 9
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