AGAIN ERUPTING
RABAUL VOLCANO
HARBOUR ENTRANCE CLOSED
DANGEROUS POSITION
Press Association—liy Electric Tel 8« craph—Copyright.) (Received June 1; 2.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Communication by sea with "Rabaul has been* cut off owing to "Vulcan Island rising 600 ft and closing the entranca to Rabaul Harbour. Dry land now extends from Vulcan Island to Matupl Island.
Mi". W: R. .Carpenter, managing director (of W. R. Carpenter and Co., Lt., trading with the islands, has received advice that the company's town wharf and foreshore buildings have collapsed, - apparently owing to an earth subsidence. , • . ' ..
Burns, Philp, and Co., , Ltd., havar been advised that the Matupi'cratef is again erupting, and that the positior at Rabaul is becoming dangerous.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 128, 1 June 1937, Page 10
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