ERUPTION IN JAVA
MOUNT SEMEROE ACTIVE VILLAGES EVACUATED. AS PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) BATAVIA, September 22. Java’s highest volcano, Mount Semeroe, in East Java, started erupting on Sunday and small explosions have continued since then. Some nearby villages have been evacuated as a precautionary measure. Semeroe caused a catastrophe in 1885, killing 72 persons and again in 1909, when 220 persons were killed and forty villages destroyed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1941, Page 6
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73ERUPTION IN JAVA Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1941, Page 6
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