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MANY JAVANS
SINGAPORE, June 21, via Tokio,
July 2 (Correspondence of Associated
Press).—The awful scenes which pre
vailed when the volcano of Kalut, in
Java, burst into eruption on May 20,
destroyed twenty-six villages and
caused a loss of life estimated by
some at 50,000, are vividly described
by Miss E. W. Cranen, who has ar
rived here from Sourabaya.
A river of boiling mud and lava,
which overwhelmed the village of Bli
tar, where Miss Cranen wa^ staying,
she says, was ten miles wide and four
feet deep.
The first symptoms of the coming
eruption, Miss Cranen said, were
sounds like thunder and vivid flashes
in the sky. Enormous boulders were
flung from the volcano into the low
lands around it for immense distances.
There was pitchy darkness, owing to
a rain of ashes.
Then came warning to the occupants
of the hotel at Blitar that the river
of lava and mud was approaching.
“We were almost beside ourselves
as to what to do to avoid a hideous
end,” she said. Twenty-four of those
staying at the hotel escaped death in
the boiling mud by fleeing aboard a
motor car driven by the wife of the
assistant resident commissioner.
According to Miss Cranen, the river
of mud ran for three hours, and
wrought fearful damage to life and
property. It covered the railway sta
tion, buried the locomotives and cars
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and destroyed virtually every house in
Blitar, Wlingi and Srengat.
A Mr. Boekhont managed to rescue
Lis wife and some of his children, but
owing to the velocity of the mud river
was unable to save two of his little
ones, who perished before his eyes.
One European, while in bed in his
house, was carried away and depos
ited miles distant. 1
A Sourabaya paper which places the
total loss of life at 50,000 says that
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fifteen Europeans perished, and that
after the volcano subsided the arms
and legs of the victims were seen pro
truding through the mud all over Ke
diri district, in the vicinity of Kalut.
Many thousands of persons are re
ported missing.
It is learned that three lava streams
flowed from the volcano, all taking
the same course as in the eruption of
1901. One of these destroyed Blitar.
Government geologists who ascended
to the crater of Kalut after the erup
tion found it empty.
The Dutch governor of the devas
tated district reported that 5,100 per
sons were killed in the eruption of
Kalut.
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LONDON, July 10 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—To provide ade
quate living wages and to set a limit
of forty-eight hours as a week’s work
is declared to be the purpose of two
important bills which are being pre
pared for action in parliament.
These two measures are understood
to be the result of an agreement be
tween representative of employers, of
trade unions and of the minister of la
bor acting as a national industrial con
ference. They are described as “gov
ernment bills on maximum working
hours and minimum time rates.”
The Avage bill as draAvn up provides
for an inquiry by a commission to de
cide what shall be the minimum wages
for adults and for young persons, the
commission to consider the cost of liv
ing. It is also provided that the min
imum Avage shall be adequate to meet
the increased living cost.
The bill intended to make forty
eight hours constitute a Aveek’s Avork
does not apply to domestic servants,
seamen on ocean-going vessels, nor vo
employes in positions of trust and con
fidence. An inquiry is to be held re
garding the Avorking conditions of do
mestic servants and seamen, to deter
mine Avhether they can be brought
within the scope of the bill.
It is stated that if the bills are ap
proved and accepted by the Avorkers
affected by them, the trade unions Avill
be asked to aid the government in or
ganizing a national industrial council,
to be representative equally of em
ployers and trade unionists.
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