Show Plague Carrying Rats Pats Again Infest London n By W. W V. V G. G United Press Pres Staff Correspondent LONDON UP Rat UP-Rat Rat traps are arc being being beng be- be ing ng set by worried Londoners for lor forthe the he dreaded plague-carrying plague black rat has las returned Civic hosts with an anye eye ye to future tourist trade pooh pooh- They passed it of off as newspaper news news- paper sensationalism Now comes Dr Martin Hinton of the he British museum who says that there here may be no need to get panicky but the statement is perfectly cor cor- recto The black rats are arc back and there here are plenty of them The black rat comes from the E East st Indies and Burma The brown rat hardier and stronger is his mortal enemy Toward I the end of the last century London's brown rats had al almost almost at- at most made an on end of ot the plague plague- carrying black ones But sanitary officials to whom all rats look alike have waged relentless war on the brown rat In so doln doing Dr Hinton says they have given the almost extinct ex cx- black rats a new lease on life Man i is not feared by the black rat ratas ratas ratas as by his hb commoner brown brother Thus the black rat is hard to to fight light Extremely acrobatic he can scurry telephone wires onto the roofs o of houses He will enter your bedroom and make a nest in your bed if it you let him Today Dr Hinton says fully tenths nine of London's rats are arc black on ones |