INVASION OF RATS IN CHINA.
A few months ago it was stated that Russian Turkestan was suffering from an invasion of mice from India. These visitations are familiar in Asia. Chinese histories record that “on three, occasions an army of ratsinvaded the country. In one instance these insatiable vermin, travelling .from one place to another, attempted a passage of the Wei River, and were fortunately drowned, their carcases choking up the banka of the stream for several days after their destruction. On the other occasion, however, they were more successful. Myriads of the creatures appeared m the neighbourhood of Nanking from the Hn-kuang provinces. They are said to have crossed the brooks and rivers in their course during the night by making themselves into a moving bridge, each animal seizing the tail of the one in front of him with his teeth, and so swimming across ; and on arrival at the other side they threw themselves upon the crops and devoured them. Another time they .effected the passage of the Yellow River.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 976, 27 December 1882, Page 3
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172INVASION OF RATS IN CHINA. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 976, 27 December 1882, Page 3
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