Word: locusts
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...Biblical times the great Egyptian locust plague was dispersed when Pharaoh persuaded Moses to entreat the Lord of Hosts (Exodus...
...Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt...
Plagued by locusts this spring worse than at any time in living memory, the Egyptian Government last week drafted proposals for an anti locust congress at Cairo, communicated with the foreign offices of lands into which the pest has spread: France (Tunis), Spain (Spanish Morocco), Britain (Palestine and Transjordania), Greece and Rumania...
...Hottest locust battle of the week was that fought on the grand old Egyptian front by thousands of sweating natives directed by a mere handful of cool, efficient Englishmen, commanded by the British Inspector General of the Egyptian Army, famed "Spinks Pasha," Maj. General Sir Charlton Watson Spinks...
Working with a $3,000,000 appropriation by the Egyptian parliament, employing "name throwers'' much like those Germany invented during the War, doughty Spinks Pasha held the grasshopping enemy at bay while trenches were dug along a mile long front. As billions of locusts swarmed and tumbled into the trenches paraffin oil was poured in and blazed. Latest reports were that the original locust offensive had been checked in Egypt, but a second wave was expected when eggs deposited in billions by locusts now dead should hatch. At each lay a single female locust deposits 8,000 eggs...