YPRES AND POMPEII
RIVALLED BY NAPIER
‘ r l vsnw Yprejfs soon after the war/’ said Archbishop Avorill in an interview at' Hastings, “and during a recent trip I saw iho ruins of the buried city of Pompeii. The memory of them is brought bo my' mind by the sight of Hastings and Napier as I have seen them to-day.
“It is almost impossible to believe/’ His Grace continued, “that shell terrible'damageivas done in so short a tiirie. Napier looks as though it bad undergone an intense _ bombardment front ,tlj.e sea.,. It is fay worse tli'an I had thought to find' it. The wonderful pictures of it that have been published, vivid as they are. cbulcl not convey a'proper idea of the damage as 1 actually saw it" ; “I think the' most extraordinary thing of all the Port, where fliq lagoon lias risen, .so J. .was informed, front five to fifteen- feet. The whole part of the island seems To have been lifted up. I don’t like to think that it will make any serious difficulty in the future, and I- certainly hojxj it won't.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11453, 2 March 1931, Page 2
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