END OF THE WORLD EXPECTED.
« ——.' A SUPERSTITIOUS VIGIL. (UNITED PRESS A&SOCIATIOH—BT ELECTUIC TELEOBAPH—COrXBIOHTO LONDON, May 22. The Constantinople correspondent ot the "Daily Mail" says that thousands of Turks and Greeks, mostly women, sat up through out tho night awaiting tho end of the world. They besieged the Observatory with telephone calls as to whether scienCo supported the rumour that an Apocalyptic face would appear m the sky and proclaim in thunderous voice the last fruitlessly published caricatures of tho face, with a view to quelling the wave otbuperscition. The population was greatly relieved to-daj.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20245, 25 May 1931, Page 11
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