Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1917 — India’s War on Rats. [ARTICLE]

India’s War on Rats.

In India the unions hate committees to look after the grounds of a church, to beautify the graveyards where their comrades and elders sleep, to care for the famine sufferers ont of their own scanty supplies. In the time of the great plague, so-called “rattall” committees were formed, composed largely of the boys of the societies, whose duty it was to kill as many rats as possible lest they carry the Infection from house to house, and to produce, as proofs of their faithfulness to their task, the tails of the rats that they had killed. —The Christian Herald.