1950-11-27 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1950.

GRIM ETNA ERUPTION MENACE Fornazzo Directly In Path Of Streaming And

And Boiling

Boiling Lava Population Get Out Property Princess Attends Exhibition

In Readiness To Flee

Catania, Nov. 26.

the

Two thousand frightened villagers were tonight directly in the p path of boiling rivers of lava streaming down slopes of Mount Etna. Late tonight there was no indication that the deadly stream would halt.

Europe's biggest active volcano erupted last

night. Throughout today the lava rolled on to- BAO DAI'S

wards the villagers of Milo and Fornazzo.

People stood in silent, unhappy groups at the doors of their homes, their belongings piled high in carts, ready to flee if the grey, streaming mass continued on its inexorable course.

The villagers continually | Families "were wondering gazed up the black, craggy whether these signalled the surface of Eina to the shooting into the dark sky from the cracks

in the volcano.

CANADA

VISIT TO

TONKIN

Hanoi, Nov. 26. Ex-Emperor Bao Dai, head of flames coming destruction of the crude the State of Vietnam, who ar- brick and timber buildingsrived in the Tonkin Delta which are their homes.

bridgehead yesterday, conferred The nearest tongues of lava for three hours today with the were less than three miles from newly-appointed French Com- the village of Milo. Between mander,

Ceneral Pierre de la the village and the oncoming Tour du Moulin. stream lies a valley.

The Governor of North Viet-1 nam, Nguyen Hlu Tri, attended the meeting,

Police and fire-fighting forces were tonight organising pre-

LASHED BY parations for evacuation of Milo

STORM

Montreal, Niv, 26. The winter's warst storm lash- ed Eastern Canada tonight, leav- ing a toll of at least eight dead in its wake and property damage which may exceed $2,000,000.

and Fornazzo.

They stopped cars filled with sightseers from going further than the two villages.

The area was carpeted by hot cinders which have been blown from the cracks in the volcano and rained down throughout the night and today.

FIVE STREAMS

The Vietminh insurgent threat to the area was discussed, it was understood,

Later the 37-year-old +x- afternoon inspection tour of the Emperor of Annam cancelled an

areas around the Hañol peri- meter. A Vietnamese official said that the former Emperor had been taken ill. He had gone to bed and his doctor had Leen called

Other usually reliable Viet- sources, however, said that Bao Dai was expected fo continue his inspection, tour

Peak gusts of 70 miles an hour hit Montreal, Quebec City and

At least five streams of lava Southern Nova Scotis early to-flowed down the north-eastern namese day while winds at Halifax and eastern slopes nf the topped 60 miles an hour. Scores volcano. of ships scurried for shelter off

As they spread on the lower strategic points in the Deltä the East Coast as the vicious slopes they formed a front tomorrow. Reuter,

storm moved out into the Atlantic,

In Ontario, hardest hit by the big blow, many cities were blanketed by 24 inches of

snow.

about 2,000 yards wide.

The speed of the flow was estimated at between 220 and 280 yards an hour.

The flowing lava has passed over surface already burned and by blackened by previous" erup-

tions.

Lake Ontario, churned violent winds, hurled 35-foot breakers onto the beaches, undermining at least 200 cot- this half-century, and 19 times Etna has erupted 10 times in' tages and leaving 500 persons in the last century. homeless.

Its most recent eruption was

A cottage, ripped loose along 11 months ago, when a stream the 13-mile stretch of lake of lava stopped almost, on the front near Hamilton, scattered doorsteps of the village of like matchwood. The Mayor

Bronte. Reuter. of Hamilton, Mr Lloyd Jackson,

FORNAZZO MENACED estimated that damage there alone would total more than $1,000,000-United Press,

Byzantine

Rites At

St. Peter's

Catania, Sicily, Nov. 20. White-hot molten rock surged toward Fornazzo tonight and the authorities fear it may bury the town.

Fornazzo is already enveloped in a choking cloud of ash dust from six separate eruptions of the 10,000-foot peak.

Moderates Leading In Burgenland

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Visitor to the disabled ex-servicemen's exhibi- tion in London ten days ago was Princess Elizabeth, who is seen greeted by Lord Alanbroke, the present Constable of the Tower of London. (Central Press).

A Binding Question To Be Argued

Augsburg, Bavaria, Nov. 26. "pathological section"

of the

A German Court, opening here Buchenwald concentration camp on Monday, hopes to settle once when Koch's husband was the and for all whether the notori- commandant there, announced ous Else Koch_had concentration at a Press conference that hun- camp victims flayed alive so that dreds of human sklus were Vienna, Nov. 20.

she could use their skin for ustd. The Right-wing People's lamp-shades, handbags and book Party (Moderate and Catholic) bindings. was leading tonight in local Council elections in the Pro- vince of Burgenland in the Russian zone of Austria.

The elections are the first to be held in the Province since the liberation of Austria.

of the Iron Curtain."

on

Austrian

He said he once delivered 'a lamp-shade made from human Koch, now 44 but still red-skin to the Kochs' flat. Reu- haired and plump in spite of her ter years in prison, will be charged with 45 murders and complicity in 135 others-all Germans or other non-Allied subjects.

The Burgenland borders Hungary, and some

A Defence Counsel, Dr Alfred

poll "elections papers have called today's Seidl, told Reuter that he was in the shadow surprised to find the "lamp- shade complex" included in the

indictment Eisenstadt, 139-page

Such charges. had been dropped by an American War Crimes Tri- bunal at Dachau in 1945 because of insufficient evidence,

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BROADWAY

Results from capital of the Province, showed Catania Observatory officials Jon Mount Etna said if the lava

12 seats for the People's Party; nine for the Socialists, and continued at its present speed

two for the Communists. of 200 metres per hour, the

Eisenstadt previously had a molten rock might reach Socialist Municipal Council.

He said: "No lamp-shades | TO-DAY.. At 2.30, 5.30, Vatican City, Nov. 26. | Fornazzo early in the morning. The Pope today attended in

From three agricultural dis-made from human skin were, -7.30 & 9.30⋅ P.M.-- Reinforced police units and tricts results were: St. Peter's a special Mass, cele- arèmen

People's produced." are ready to begin Party 235 seats, Socialists 159 brated according to Byzantine jevacuation of the village when seats, Communist Dil-Reu- rites, for persecuted Roman the signal is given.

ter. Catholics throughout the world.

It was only the second time A river of lava, 200 metres during this century that these in width, was advancing on rites, observed by about 8,000,000 level terrain, headed toward Eastern Catholics, had been the roads leading Into the towns used in the chief Basilica of the of Fornazzo and Milo. Catholic Church.

Following its, "very active" The other occasion was:

on Saturday night, cruption on November 15

1926, When Professor Gustavo Cumin, geo- Pope Pius X ordered an logist of Catania?. University, Eastern Mass to celebrate the sent an on the spot report by 16th centenary of the Council radio to Professor Umberto de of Nicaea, which gave the Flore here in Catania reading: Church the Nicene Creed.

"We are at the 'donkey's back' and are observing the erup- favers, were, offered at to-tion. We have

soen a large day's Mass for all Catholics crack in the Valley of the Lion undergoing persecution, par with five explosive · mouths ficularly those behind the very active with output of lava "Iron Curtain."

and another explosive "mouth The Patriarch Maximum TV at the 6,724-foot: lével, The lava of Antioch; assisted by. 14 flow is swift but the front is not Bishops, our Archimandrites very large. The lava and one Canon, all of the reached the heights of Bocca Eastern Churches, performed Mussara. ":::

TO-DAY

ONLY

Herr Josef Ackermann,' 'chief of the Munich City. Press De- Ipartment, who worked in the

At 2.30, 5.15,

QUEEN'S 1.20 & 9.30

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M-G-M'S BIG NEW : SPECTACULAR WESTERN!.

has

OPENS

the colourful ceremony.-Reu- No casualties have been re- {TO-MORROW

ter.

ported.--United Press.

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This was man who Lived by his guns ...too long!

Gregory

PECKS

Gunfighter

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