AMBRYM DISASTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 December 1913, Page 5

AMBRYM DISASTER.

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IBv TtUaravh—Freu Attociation.} DUNI3>IN, Last Night. . With' reference to the Wellington telegram in reference to news from the' New; Hebrides; per H.M.S. Py'the. Foreign Missions, Committee of the Ohurcji, hasr been advisfedthat the outbreak began on December 6th,--and. riext (Sunday) morning the danger had become so great that Dr Bowie began to remove all patients ini his oil launch. He made two trips toAulua, on Malekula Island, and got everybody away safely. When he got back to Ambrym the third time the lava, had come down the valley and overwhelmed everything*, not a trace of the hospital or any other building king left. Many natives were killspin© by falling and x>thera by being drowned or boaled in the sea. The French steamer La France took over five hundred natives _ to Port Sandwich. When she arrived at Vila the French Resident Com~ "missioner ordered, her to discharge her caxgo, and load tip all the available He© and other, provisions, and he himself proceeded with her to Port Sandwich. Mr King, the British Resident Commissioner, followed next day in his istea.m yacht. The mission property is absolutely swallowed up. Dr Borrie and others escaped in the clcithes they stood in. When the Pyranvua left* Dr Borrie was suffering from the terrible strain he had passed through. \ The British Resident at Vila . has been advised that there is now an active crater where the mission property stood.