THE SILKWORM INDUSTRY
ATTEMPT TO BLIGHT IT DESTRUCTION OF TREES United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, May 30 A report from Erivan, capital of Armenia, describes how wreckers, at the Instigation of local Nationalists and Japanese and Italian intelligence offirers. tried 1o blight the silkworm industry by destroying 600.000 mulberry trees and shipping raw silk infected with parasites all over the country, causing millions of roubles’ worth of damage and breaking up the State silkworm farms, says the Moscow correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. .M. Kamoyev, head of the Silk Trust, has been sentenced to death, and hts assistant. Helena Markalyan, and the farm manager. Sarkisyan, each to ten years' imprisonment.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20512, 31 May 1938, Page 9
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112THE SILKWORM INDUSTRY Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20512, 31 May 1938, Page 9
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