The hope that it will be possible to employ aeroplanes for purposes of reconnaissance, and perhaps for tthe destruction of locusts, pressed by the Locust Sub-committee of the Committee of Civil Research interim report "If this is to be effected," they state, "it is very desirable that arrangements should be made to secure the ce-operation of the Royal Air Force in locust-inhabited countries. We recommend, therefore, that the Committee of Civil Research should invite the Air Council to forward copies of this report to the air officers, commanding in such territories, so that they may be aware of the proposed inquiries. in_any case where the Royal Force were able to assist in this way appropriate arrangements would require to be made to reim-Durse Air Votes in respect of the expenditure involved." A unified programme of research extending over five years and costing £4,000 year is recommended.
"Our appointment synchronises with one of the recurrent outbreaks of the desert locust. Its appeal ance in small numbers in 1927 was followed in 1928 by an invasion on large: scale in Southern Sudan from the east, in Kenya from the viorth, and later in the Tanganyika territory through Kenya. In the ame year there were important in-visions in Palestine, Transjorda and Iraq, There is no evidence available regarding the probable uration of the present invasion, but, judging by past experience, 1 may safely be assumed that it will continue in 1980 and probably 1931, Already £50,000 has been spent in coust control and on relief menaures in Kenya.
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