EARTHQUAKE PROPHET

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 84, 18 March 1931, Page 3

EARTHQUAKE PROPHET

GONE OUT OF BUSINESS LONDON, Feb. 7. Dr. Hanko, tlie, Budapest foreteller of , earthquakes, has announced that he has not been able to work lately owing to illness. He is not going to do any more prophesying of earthquakes for the present. He is receiving so many inquiries from all over the world that lie cannot find time to deal with them and attend to his own work as well. So that lie has decided to. engage the services of a manager. He has not, however, given up hope of resuming his activities in the realm of prophecy later. But a rival to Dr. Hanko has appeared at Anionahasliidate, a small watering-place in Japan. The head of the Kioto seismologies! station met this prophet during the summer, and in November received a telegram from him giving the time and place of the big earthquake which occurred next day at four o’clock in the morning on the peninsula of izu. He stated .that his prophecies were based on observing the forms of the rainbows which are to be seen very frequently from Anionahasliidate. No serious earthquake, he has stated (very comforting for Japanese fears roused by the news from New Zealand) is to he expected in Japan for some months.