END OF THE WORLD
EXPECTATION IN EAST
AWAITING LAST JUDGMENT
SUPERSTITIOUS VIGIL
United Press .Association—By Electric TelM Kraiili— Copyright. (Beccivcd 23rd May, noon.) j LONDON, 22nd May. The "Daily Mail's" Constantinople correspondent says that thousands of Turks and Greeks, mostly women., sat up throughout the night awaiting the end of the world. They besieged the observatory wi\h telephone calls .is to whether science supported the rumour that an apocalyptic face would appear in the sky and proclaim in a thunderous voics the Last Judgment. The newspapers in vain published caricatures of the face with a view to quelling tho wave of superstitution. The population, was greatly relieved to* day-
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1931, Page 13
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1931, Page 13
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