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THE JAVA ERUPTION.
50,000 14 VSS LOST. Received noon. , ! . BRISBANE, this day Details of the Java eruption shows tiiat three streams of mud, and boiling water, and sand poured down from Mount Kloet. and struck Bitta. It destroyed the Chinese quarter, (burying thousands of natives. The rain of ashes and stones continued for two days and nights, destroying forty acres of rich sugar and coffee lands. It is estimated that fifty thousand, including a few whites, perished.
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Taihape Daily Times, 24 June 1919, Page 5
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77THE JAVA ERUPTION. Taihape Daily Times, 24 June 1919, Page 5
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