VESUVIUS ACTIVE
A TORRENT OF LAVA. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ROME, June 10. A telegram from Naples says that Vesuvius is showing increased activity. The crater cone collapsed, leaving a thirty foot gap through which a torrent of lava is pouring, threatening to turn the western and south-eastern slopes into a river of fire. Numerous small craters have opened on the slopes. Villagers at the foot of the slopes removing their belongings.
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Southland Times, Issue 18965, 12 June 1923, Page 5
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