Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-19 | Page 7 | Three Million Rats Succumb in London War

THREE MilliON r SUCCUMB 1 IN lONDON WAR AR Rodents Gained Headway Headway Headway Head Head- way During Days When Hunters Turned Attention Attention Atten Atten- tion to the Germans I LONDO LONDON Dec 19 By A. A P. P P.- P. London is minus rats that I formed a large section of the ro rodent rodent ro- ro I dent population last year The merciless merciless mer mer- ciless assaults assa of a rejuvenated city and the ardor of several hundred professional rat-catchers rat are aree re re- re In the war days all of ot London's LonI London's Lon Lon- I dons don's rat catchers changed their ul ultimate ultimate ultimate ul- ul object from the rat to the German the pests multiplied unhampered unhampered unhampered un un- un- un hampered and after overrunning their natural haunts In the poorer pOOler sections of ot the city bordering on the river eventually infested the theol ol older er stores and office e buildings In Inthe Inthe inthe the cIt city and West End Erld Like many other eVils which were rooted Inthe in inthe inthe the war It has taken several years ears tf of If war post-war effort to again get them under control Intensive Extensive building bunding operations which are being undertaken Involving I ing the tearing down o of many or of orthe the city's old buildings s. s has haR robbed the of their abodes The newer brick fireproof structures taking their place offer no asylum to the wandering rat During the e destruction of a row of buildings In Regent street the rat-catchers rat of the city of Westminster were kept busy for several weeks chasing and killing rats rata as they ran from the con condemned building Into the streets and alleys s The rat-catcher rat and his assistants sent In a bill to the city council for the deaths of 1752 rats and they the were paid a a. shilling for each body bod The activities of the municipal rat catchers have almost rid the shopping district of ot rats Incidental to their official labors the rat rat- catchers have exterminated water- water bugs and wood-beetles wood which for centuries Infested the old buildings and stores stort's of London With the substitution of brick and mortar the beetle lost his subsistence ana and gradually withdrew to more fruitful fruitful fruitful fruit fruit- ful places The water bugs however however how how- I ever have been eliminated by a new 1 liquid discovered by a n. rat-catcher rat I during army arm service in India The I liquid Is only sprayed about the pipes and drains but It has such potency that one whiff Is sufficient I to kill a bug In less than three years ears It has been possible to entirely entire entire- ly rid the London area of this pest Lack of other employment has turned several hundred men into rat-catchers rat who are mostly employed employed employed em em- along the river fronts and andIn andIn In the factories and shops There are about of ot these men an anI any and they have destroyed ed about a million I and a a. half halt rats during the last laste year e r. r The rat catching eor corps s of the Landon Lon Lan LonI London don boroughs and a host of volunteer volunteer volunteer volun volun- I teer householders have accounted for tor the other million and a half halt It ItI cost nearly to war on the I rats during the last year ear ear