PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS
PALESTINE AND SYRIA SAVED BENEFICENT CHANGE OF WIND (Rec. February 7, 7.15 p.m.) Jerusalem, February 6. Almost a miraculous change of wind saved Palestine and Syria from a destructive visitation of locusts. • For months past the Government had anticipated a spring plague, and made elaborate preparations to combat the invasion. A vast swarming advance guard suddenly appeared near Petra, with the wind drifting them steadily towards Palestine. The defence was iimnediatelv mobilised, including . teries of flame guns, when the wind veered and turned the invaders in the direction of the most barren and rockiest part of the desert, where insects are condemned to die of starvation.—A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 111, 8 February 1928, Page 9
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111PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 111, 8 February 1928, Page 9
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