BATTLEFIELD BREEDS PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS
i.VriMvcil Fiiilav, 11.40 ] >.ui. I.ONDON, May 24. \ • auuc f if" giassh(i])pcrs is (lc\-:is-bi'iii. rlic count rysidc ucar Litloriii. H ri -avs the Manchester Guanlian 's ica ■■ . . n 'I'spniukHit. Tliey are on the •nM'i. ..■•tweeu tlie toriner Anzio beaclii a all this new Fontine Marsh The Italiaiis, in ilesjieration, bici .h.isyene gas and jmisnneil brau :i;M lmt witli limiteil suecess. 1 1' Mei-yene turiied palclies of scrub•Iims: ' Wln red and made scalilet heaps "i '■ i locust s but many escaped tlie ''■;o "a ihe other liand, it ciaimed i:ds as additional victims. d •• • •■c?iu yrasslioppers bred extenm .• , > of larxae in tlie Anzio ••ad, an area during tlie war u'e. : ; i - 1 i y was an Italian artillery on V M'.-i>nd|y a battlefield and thinlIv :• "-Meiisividy mined with tlie re- ;; ''iis not tilled during the war. be ■ 'iui ii ies are inaking efl'orts to */A " mpplies of special poison wliieh •'■mi i .. fldwn from Fiigland to Sar''"mi ■ ombat a similar ]dague.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 May 1946, Page 5
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164BATTLEFIELD BREEDS PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS Chronicle (Levin), 25 May 1946, Page 5
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