SUBMARINE ERUPTIONS.
SOTJTII-WEST AFRICA.
ACRID FUMES FILL AIR.
TYPHUS OUTBREAK FEARED.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright CAPETOWN. May 11.
A succession of violent submarine sulphur eruptions are occurring off the southwest coast, from Conception Bay, 80 or 90 miles to the north beyond Walfish Bay. Yellowish smoke is rising from tho ocean two miles from the shore and tho air at present is filled with acrid fumes. Tho sea is teeming with dead fish, a hot wind is blowing from the desert, and an unpleasant odour pervades tho town of Swakopmund. The people there fear an outbreak of typhus like one which swept South-West Africa in 1925 after similar occurrences.
Thirty years ago an island appeared off Walfish during eruptions, but it subsided three days later.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20562, 13 May 1930, Page 9
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