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Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1922, Page 1

WORLD “BREAKING UP.” NEW YORK, July 20. Dr -Milton A. Nobles, a prominent Philadelphia geologist and student of volcanic disturbances, declares that within 30 days Southern Europe, Northern Africa, and the whole of Asia will be destroyed by earthquakes and t ; heir populations wiped out. The trouble is brewing, he says,

among 70. volcanoes in the neighbourhood of Budapest, and lie recalls that when the famous Heela (Iceland) eruption oceurod in tho latter part of the eighteenth century enough lava was emit ted to girdle the earth with a stream of 10 feet dpep and 200 feet wide. This ,he adds, will give an idea of the forces hidden hen rath the earth’s surface which his studies convince him are now on the point of breaking forth. Dr Nobles has already predicted that “an earthquake era which began on March loth, will ultimately submerge a large pni;tj of Europe.” Since that date- earthquakes of a minor character have taken place in Italy and Serbia.