SWARMS OF LOCUSTS
28,000,000 CHINESE SUFFER CHUNGKING, Aug. 23 Huge swarms of locusts stripped the countryside bare in ten large counties of Honan Province. China. This area was originally fertile, but a disastrous famine occurred there last year. Mr Ernest Wampler, a representative of the American Advisory Committee said the locusts left absolutely nothing green, only yellow and desolate land in their wake. He added that 28,000,000 persons were affected. Last year, starving peasants ate bark from the trees, grass and weeds, but this year even the trees were stripped. Nothing edible remained. Only food from outside could prevent further wholesale deaths
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22125, 25 August 1943, Page 3
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102SWARMS OF LOCUSTS Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22125, 25 August 1943, Page 3
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