The anti-locust campaign is yielding positive results but due to the scattered centers of operation creating increased difficulties the campaign will probably be prolonged until June, it was officially announced today. The Jordan area is now clear of the pests. In Beersheba and the Auja area the campaign is nearing its peak while the Hebron and Jerusalem regions are already cleaned up.
In the Nablus area the pests have just started their hatching and 10,000 dunams are affected. The Samakh area is partially cleared but the Migdal, Rosh Pinah, Nazareth, Afuleh, Acre and Gaza areas are still affected. The Transjordan campaign has been successful.
Up to the present time 2,648 tons of adult locusts have been destroyed and 360,168 kilograms of eggs have been destroyed. Although the crisis of the anti-locust campaign is approaching its end is expected within a few weeks.
The situation in Syria, however, is still critical as the result of fresh swarms that have invaded Aleppo, Damascus, Homs, Homa and other areas. In Egypt the locusts have attacked the Delta and Nile valley as well as the neighborhood of Cairo. The new at tacks are coming from Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula.
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