ETNA IN ERUPTION.
LAVA STREAM SIX MILES WIDE, INHABITANTS’ EVACUATE VILLAGE. 'United Press Aesn. by El. Tel. Oopyrlgb' (Australian Press Association.) ROME, Nov. 4. Following heavy rain storms. Mt, Etna has become active from the crater of 6,500ffi. v -made by the 1865 eruption. A lava stream a mile wide is advancing on the Village of St. Alton, devastating forests en route. Century-old. trees-are flar'iijg up like, matchwood. - Isolated farms .Off. the mountain 1 . side Inum been eyiipipited,. and the inhabitants, of thcv threatened village are ready to fleie monientftrily. , '„ . l ; ROME. Nov.' 4.. • Etna’s lava .streams rife no\y six miles long. The whole 200 , inliabit- ! ant's have, evacuated St. Alfco. ' . 1
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10736, 6 November 1928, Page 2
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112ETNA IN ERUPTION. Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10736, 6 November 1928, Page 2
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