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Late last month Mauna Loa grumbled, heaved. The volcano erupted suddenly in great fiery fountains of lava. They spurted 600 ft. in the air, lighting the clouds above blacked-out Hawaii, rolled in a torrent of molten rock down the slopes to the city and harbor of Hilo 30 miles away...
Closer & closer the burning river ap proached, eating through forests, moving on the city. Mauna Loa had not been so angry since 1881. But warplanes slipped their bombs into the tubes of lava, collapsed them, stifled the flow. Eleven miles from the city's center, the river of lava smoked to a halt...
...More ancient was the enemy: Asamayama ("Mountain Without Bottom"), most fretful and dangerous of Japan's 50 active volcanoes. Seismologists had predicted that an ominously growing crust inside the cone threatened an eruption as violent as that of 1783, when 48 villages were buried deep beneath a scoriaceous lava stream. The word "catastrophe" in Axis news broadcasts indicated that what the seismologists feared may have occurred. But Allied nations were given no word of the damage's extent. This time-unlike the tragic days of the 1923 earthquake-Japan was in no position to appeal to the world...
...Norway, whose shipyard and factory workers are masters of the invisible slowdown, hate erupted like hot lava when Vidkun Quisling was installed as puppet Premier. Ready for action stood German troops with fixed bayonets, German tanks with troops inside. Nevertheless, two railway stations and the National Theater in Oslo were set on fire, bombs were tossed into a university building and into the House of Parliament. When arch-quisling Quisling stepped toward a balcony to receive the crowd's plaudits, the searchlights went out. Someone had cut the cables. Thirty-three friends of King Haakon were taken as hostages...
Last week the Jap came to Rabaul on New Britain. He arrived in 100 bombers, probably from the Carolines, which he has fortified regardless of his pledge. Death from the skies was no new thing for Rabaul; in 1937 two volcanoes reared an arc of steam and lava 4,000 feet above the town. Two hundred and sixty people were killed. Jap bombers killed eleven...