Agricultural experts flew to the Negev today to check on reports that the threatened invasion of Israel by great swarms of locusts had actually begun. It was stated here that the first locusts had been sighted at the Israeli agricultural experimental station at Ein Yahav, located 80 miles south of Beersheba. Another swarm of the pests is said to be moving westward from Eilath, on the Gulf of Akaba.
(The British Government is spending 1,000,000 pounds throughout the Middle East to fight the locust invasion, it was reported in London today. Some 7,600 tons of poison bait has been distributed as part of this program.)
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