Volcanoes Quieter

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6834, 15 April 1932, Page 7

Volcanoes Quieter

VAST DEPOSIT OF ASHES RESULTS MAY BE BENEFICIAL TO AGRICULTURE United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. NEW YORK, April 13. The Times’ Buenos Aires correspondent says tlie rain of ashes from the Andean volcanoes ceased to-day almost as abruptly as it began on Sunday. It covered the Argentine pampas with a snowlike blanket inches deep for 700 miles over a strip 400 miles wide. Dozens of the volcanoes in eruption have quieted sufficiently for the regular air service to Chile to resume. No deaths from tho eruption have been reported thus far, and opinion varies as to whether the ashes will prove harmful. Their effect on the health of cattle is believed to depend on the early rains to' wash out and revivify the pastures. It i s ploughing season now, and it is expected that, when ploughed under, the ashes will prove highly beneficial on account of their potash content.

Fears in. the town of Mendoza of asphyxiating gases which would necessitate the evacuation of the tow.n have subsided. Outbreak More Alarming- Than Dangerous SANTIAGO (Chile), April 13. It is reported that dust and ashes from the eruptions have ceased falling. The Press Association correspondent at Buenos Aires reports: “Conservative seismologists here are inclined to believe that the volcanic activity was more frightening thami actually dangerous.”