THE EAST,
A dreadful calamity is reported. A small island, Sugalonda, in the Malay Archipelago, has been visited by a volcano outburst at Puwang, accompanied by a fearful earthquake convulsion. A sea wave, 40 yards high, swept human beings and cattle 'off. 116 poeple perished.
A letter from a Jewish Rabbi in Persia says the country is suffering the direst calamity to which tho worst situation is trifling. Mothers and fathers are eating their children ; husbands doing the same to their wives ; grown-up brothers killing their younger brothers and sisters, and sometimes their fathers and mothers ! Food is all their cry !
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 189, 21 September 1871, Page 4
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101THE EAST, Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 189, 21 September 1871, Page 4
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