OCEANIC ERUPTIONS
SEA OF AFRICA TEEMS WITH DEAD FISH PEOPLE FEAR TYPHUS Reed. 9.5 a.m. CAPETOWN, Sunday. A succession of violent submarine sulphur eruptions are occurring on the south-west coast from Conception Bay northward, 80 or 90 miles, to beyond Walfisch Bay. Yellowish smoke is rising from the ocean two miles from the shore, and the air at present is filled- with acrid fumes. The sea is teeming with dead fish. A hot wind is blowing from the desert and a stench pervades the port of Swakopmund, where the people fear a typhus outbreak like the one which swept the south-west in 1925, following similar occurrences. Thirty years ago an island appeared off Walfisch during eruptions, but subsided after three days.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 969, 12 May 1930, Page 9
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