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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1934.

LOCUSTS RAVAGE

S. AFRICA

MOTOR CARS AND TRAINS STOPPED

SOLAR ECLIPSE.

VIEWED BY SCIENTISTS IN CAROLINE ISLANDS

Tokyo, Fob, 15.

QUAKE DAMAGE

BUILDINGS COLLAPSE IN THE PHILIPPINES

Baguio, Feb. 15. The worst earthquake experi- Japaneso and American scient-enced in the Philippines during ioon yesterday. It shook the ists, gathered at Rosop in the the past three years occurred at Caroline Islands, were given a whole of the province of Luzon, fine opportunity yesterday to ob being centred, apparently, in the serve and photographs a total solar locos Provinces, eclipse.

Johannesburg, Dec. 81. The New Year is being ushored in to the rustle of the wings of countless hordes of locusts spread over the widest aren ever known in South Africa, menacing almost

The sky was absolutely cloud- every corner and every type of farming, from the sugar cane fields less when the sun was covered. of the Natal coast to the further.The scientists were delighted with moat ranch of South-West Africa, newly greened by the recent rains after the record drought.

Here at Bagulo It was severely 'olt. In various parts of the rovince many buildings collapsed, resulting in panic. Though several persons were more or less results and believe they have obseriously injured, hitherto no tained valuable data for re-test- deaths are reported, ing the Elasteln theory-Router.

Observed Locally

Swarms sixty to a hundred miles long, almost obscuring the sunlight, are a common sight, sending every The partial eclipse of the sun was whon farmer frantically beating tins and clearly seen in Hongkong on Wednes

day morning. About 7.16 a.m., burning smoke fires in an the sun had topped the hills on the vour to prevent the locusts from eastern horizon, the partially obscured settling and eating him into ruina-dpc was visible in an unclouded sky, about a third being in shadow. The tion.

Motorists everywhere report driv-eclipse was then approaching its final Ing through locusta like endless stages, and by eight o'clock thie

shadow had entirely passed. hailstorms until they are forced to stop by spattered windscreens and Even trains choked radiators. have been stopped by the locusts, which render the lines slippery.

In many places the locusts have settled and laid eggs, which, hatch out within three or four weeks..pro- If not ducing countless hoppers. killed immediately these cause fur- ther untold' damage.

JAPANESE TRADĖ GAINS

at San receded Вед The Sebastian, and its sudden return nearly drowned a large crowd who had gathered on the shore to collect vast numbers of fishos which had become stranded.--Our Luzon is on the well-defined On Correspondent, earthquake Ino in the Philippines, experiencing shocks, and reafdents of Baguio are con

Wainesday though this one on stantly has undoubtedly been the most severe for a long time. The In- tensity of the disturbance may be kathered from the fact that the quake was felt in Hongkong, several local residents noticing n distinct rattling of ornaments on tables and shelves, and vibration of buildings. One resident of the Central district felt the tremors so markedly that he im mediately assigned them

the time carthquake shock, and taking out his watch noted both and the period of the tremors; it was almost exactly noon, and the quake lasted a full minute.

Earth tremors were recorded in Hongkong on Feb. 12 at 7 h, 80 m. Some of the merchants are 50 a., according to the Royal Ob arranging to open offices in Japan servatory record. The indication for the furtherance of their con-was that the shock was actually about 850 miles from the Colony. nexion thero-Reuter Special.

EXTENSIVE OPERATIONS AT SINGAPORE

Singapore, Feb. 15., Everywhere the Union Govern- ment is preparing the greatest anti-

Owing to the intense Japanese locust campaign in its history. competition, a number of leading Thousands of voluntary workers Singapore importers are abandon- have been enrolled through-out the ing trading with British and Con- country, headed by a hundred tinental manufacturers and are im- experts, who are armed with poison porting Japanese goods instead.

They will sprays and pumps, attack the hoppers as soon as they. are hatched. It is going to be a mighty battle, and none knows who will win-man or locust.

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