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Complete Spectacular Drive on Locusts in Palestine

May 13, 1930
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The greatest and most spectacular attempt to put an end once and for all to the locust plague has now been completed with the laying down of twenty miles of zinc sheeting with a series of pits between Beersheba to Khan Yunir. Tons of poisoned bait have been strewn over the sheeting with the object of trapping the vast hordes of hoppers which are advancing from the Sinai Peninsula.

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