HEKLA ABLAZE ACROSS PEAK
REYKJAVIK, March 30." Ablaze rigbt. across its peak, Mount ; Hekla today continued tlirowing np dense clouds of a.slies, fumes and thou- ■ S.auds pf tons of glpwing bo.ulders. O.eologi.sts wh.o establjshed stations near the volcano said they-expeeted-flie ernption to .continue for several months. " Fine brown dust was scattered all oyer Copenhagen this morning. Experts saiff it canie from -Mount Hekia, in leelands Du.st was ° also repprted from other parts of Denjnark and from the island of Zeeland, - At St. Merita the gronnd is sparltling red, instead of white. watched red snow falling and^Jj^m that it was eoloured by upper atmosphere
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 April 1947, Page 5
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