ONLY 18 DEATHS
300 NATIVES NOT ACCOUNTED
(Received June 10, 10.45 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
The Administrator of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea (Brigadier-; General McNicoll) reports that the total number of deaths as a result of the Rabaul eruption is only 18, though there are some 300 natives not accounted for. These, he states, w:ll probably be found among the population of the surrounding villages, to which thvf apparently fled in the first hours of confusion and terror.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 10
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