OVER 400 NATIVES MISSING.
TOLL OF RABAUL ERUPTION. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 16. The New Guinea Administration , reveals that 424 natives, adults and children of both sexes, are missing since the volcanic eruption in Rabaul. It is feared that the majority are dead. About 50 bodies have already been recovered and buried. The remainder are believed to have been overwhelmed and to lie under the debris.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 July 1937, Page 5
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