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Emu War of 1932

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The War on Emus

Brigadier Martin recalled Major Meredith on December 10th. In Martin's reports he gave an estimated 986 birds killed and 9860 bullets used. The team moved around the area as various farmers would report to them that they had seen emus and had crop damage. By December 2nd they were pretty consistently killing by reports about 100 emus a week.

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