EXPLORED .CRATER
MI ST I IKK GOING DOWN TO HKI.L’ (Aust and N.Z. Cable.) Rome, Jan uary S. ‘‘l t was just like going down t<: luvl,” Aii'ail Kiner, who. clad ii i\n a.sl>e"jtos stii& and a out helmet; equipped with an oxygen breathing apparatus explored tlio crater ol Mouiq Stromboli, one of Europe’s few remaining active volcanoes, foa
A. -Kiser d<-yended, sulphurous fumes emerged! iu a. heading mist from in Lite black, red and yellow walls of the orator. Pits 20ft to 30ft deep, :re;dubiing biding cauldron s of porridge, were discovered wli e n Killer reached solid ground. Bursting lava, distributed showers of stones and incandescent luattcii* hundreds cl' feet high over the tup of the crater. Everfew minute-: geysers of lava Showered stones as large as footballs in every direction. The convulsions
svi. ocean beac-i. When Kifeter was drawui up, liis oxygen supply way almost steel.
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Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3930, 13 January 1933, Page 6
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