FEAR OF ERUPTION
MT. VESUVIUS SPECTACLE. NO MENACE AS YET. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.} (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) ROME, June 4. News from Naples states accompanied by violent explosions, a new eruptive crater appeared in Vesuvius from which lava is fast pouring. Though experts are of the opinion villages at present will not he menaced, prayers are being offered in churches and mar-ket-places imploring God to remove the danger. Hundreds and thousands are watching the magnificent spectacle of. a pillar of smoke, shot with incandescent streaks, spreading over the volcano’s crust. The sea is red hot with lava cinders. Special trains are being held in readiness to remove villagers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1929, Page 5
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