Tokyo, Nov. 15.
Japan's wartime staple fibre clothes have attained wide popularity, at least among Japanese locusts, the Japanese press reported today.
Farmers in Fukui Prefecture, the reports said, had been attributing holes ig their clothes merely to the well-own failure of Japanese staple fibre to withstand the hardships of ordinary wear. Now, however, the farmers have discovered that the cloth substitute has become a popular item on the locust menu.
The Japanese reports said the locusts prefer the staple fibre with "a little seasoning of human prespiration." In most cases, it was said, holes as big as a man's fist were eaten into the farmer's clothes even while they were working ju the rice fields—United. Press.
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