LESS ACTIVE NOW
RABAUL VOLCANOES
MUCH SMOKE FROM VULCAN
ISLAND
SYDNEY, June 3.
Radio messages from Rabaul, New Britain, today state that the volcanoes are less active. The Vulcan Island crater, however, is belching smoke hundreds of feet into the air.
Aviators report that there is still a passage into the harbour, although there is a considerable depth of pumice on the harbour bed.
Small parties of men from Kokopu are revisiting IJabaul and collecting valuables and important' documents.
FEARS FOR PHOTOGRAPHER
(Received June •*, 9 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
It is feared that a man named Elsworthy perished today while climbing an old crater at Rabaul for the purpose of talcing photographs.'
Four hundred natives are engaged by the Administration cleaning up Rabaul, which is likely to continue as the capital. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 131, 4 June 1937, Page 9
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