DOZEN VOLCANOES ERUPT

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1932, Page 7

DOZEN VOLCANOES ERUPT

ASHES RAIN FOR FOUR DAYS ARGENTINE PLAIN BLANKETED “MORE SCARE THAN PERIL’-’ PROBABLY BENEFIT SOIL By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. New York, April 13. A rain of ashes from the Andean volcanoes ceased to-day, almost as abruptly as it began on Sunday, after covering the Argentine pampas with a enowlike blanket inches deep for 70 miles wide, says the Buenos Aires correspondent of the New York Times.

The dozen or more volcanoes in eruption have quietened sufficiently for the regular air service to Chile to resume. No deaths from the eruption have been reported thus far, and opinion varies as to whether the ashes will prove to have a harmful effect on the health of cattle. This is believed to depend on whether early rains fail to wash the dust out and revive the pastures.

It is the ploughing season now, and it is expected that, when ploughed under, the ashes will prove highly beneficial owing to the potash content. Fears in the town of ■ Mendoza of asphyxiating gases which would have necessitated evacuation have subsided.

Santiago (Chile) reports that dust and ashes have ceased falling. The Associated Press correspondent at Buenos Aires reports: “Conservative seismologists here are inclined to believe that the volcanic activity was more frightening than actually dangerous.”