(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Transjordania, like western Palestine, was saved yesterday from the locust plague by a strong desert wind.
An army of locusts appeared at Hismeh, Transjordania, threatening the fields of the region. However, just as at Petra the early part of the week, a wind drove the locusts back to the desert.
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