VOLCANO GIVES WARNING?

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1938, Page 24 (Supplement)

VOLCANO GIVES WARNING?

Rumblee from deep in the earth are worrying people in two "corners'* of the world. In the Hawaiian Islands, citizens of Hilo are looking fearfully at Mauna Loa, the giant Toloano towering over their head*. Aad the revival of Mount Longonot, long aleeping volcano not far from Nairobi, South Africa, has prepared the people there for a sudden eruption. Seal concern is felt that Hilo's fate might be aimilar to Pompeii, whan Vesuvius pot a* and to that city more than 2000 years ago, But Hilo does not intend to be caught napping. It is considering building huge rock dams to divert the flow of lava from the city. Previou* to the eruption that buried Pompeii, there was an earthquake, which seemed to act a* a warning. Hawaii just had an earthquake! Apparently, Pompeii did not understand the warning, for when the raina of the city were uncovered 1700 year* later, they traced a dramatic aocount of how the people had been eaught totally unprepared. Even meal* were rudely interrupted.