Locusts Swoop on Canary Islands

Series

Series Name

British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

2471

Date Released

4 Nov 1954

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Dockers Back to Face Big Leeway
2. 2Duchess Aids Limbless Ex-Servicemen
3. 3New York Takes Queen Mother to Its Heart
4. 4Names in News
5. 5Names in News
6. 6Names in News
7. 7Names in News
8. 8The Story of a Patent
9. 9Locusts Swoop on Canary Islands
10. *Tyneside Acclaims Queen
11. *Students Rag the Life into Birmingham

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

9 / 9

Summary

From north west Africa millions of locusts descend on Canary Islands and wreck most of crops.

Keywords

Agriculture; Insects

Library number

22870

Length of story (in feet)

76

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Name

Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

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Phone

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Notes

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