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v *welcome Guests
Dr. W. Harold Storm
Note.—Dr. Storm went out to Arabia in 1927 and is still engaged in language i
jjudy. The phenomenon which he describes in this article is observable in Oman
aUo» but as the attack in Kuwait was on a much larger scale, Dr. Storm’s interesting
fcjcription of’it is included in this number which is primarily devoted to the work .*
Oman.—Ed. !•.
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0 NE morning last February we noticed in the sky a dark object . «•
off to the southwest. It was moving very slowly towards us and
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as it came nearer and nearer, the exact straightness of its outline
increased. The closer it approached, the more it looked like a • \ •
£rk cloud in the sky as seen before a thunder shower. When it was near • • ;
joough for us to distinguish details, we found out to our amazement that * ' .
it was made up of myriads of moving objects, shaped like tiny aeroplanes. ~
\Ve were to experience an attack on the city from the air, not by aeroplanes,
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fct by locusts in numbers such as had not been seen in Kuwait for years.
■The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands.” Prov. '\
JQ-27. At first they seemed to be advancing noiselessly, but not so, for
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£cir arrival brought a regular bedlam of noise caused by the flapping •
^millions of wings. “Like the noise of chariots on the tops-of mountains :
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^aU they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble,
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gi itrong people set In battle aray.” Joel 2:5.
The buildings, the ground, the air, everything and every place were :
pvered and filled with them. They beat against the face almost like hail
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