Show SEE EE SPIRITS OF CRATER TER VICTIMS Ghostly Visitors Bring Fear rear to Japanese tt Curling Ceding up In the smoke which rises from the crater of Japans Japan's famous suicide volcano the ghostly Images of three girls were seen by terror terror stricken ken villagers on the Island of Remembering that roso rose to fame tame as a n lov- lov lovers lov lovers ers death tryst following sm suicides ot of three high school girls the villagers said the specter of or the girls was un an ill III omen Frightened the superstitious said Ue the volcano's master was about to rise from the land of tire to lure visitors to the abode of the devil Three days Inter later visitors from Tokyo Toko just across the bay hay swarmed to the Island partly out of ot curiosity and partly because It was Sunday and l the Islands Island's natural beauty and aud warmth attracted them At 1030 lb o n a m about spectators were gathered on the spot from which persons committing commUting suicide plunge to their death Suddenly a ayoung ayoung young man scarcely twenty five ran forward and flung himself headlong Into the crater As the spectators horrified and speechless looked at each other another man n a few Cew years ears older oIlier came out from the throng and without saying a word walked walled as though In a n trance and dropped Into the fiery pit Nervously the spectators movel moved away afraid that some unseen hand ml might ht pull them Into the tir smoldering Inferno Suddenly another youth about twenty three ran to the edge of the crater stripped himself ot of othis his kimono and with nothing on ex- ex except ex except shorts stepped over the brink Into time the world beyond Hardly had hall the talk of these sui sul- suicides died down when two days later three more men flung Oung them them- themselves themselves selves Into the Ule fire emitting abyss one after another as many spectators spectators tors looked on The police pollee have ha decided that here here- hereafter hereafter hereafter after all nIl visitors to the Island will be questioned before beCore being permitted permUted to toland toland land Those suspected of or suicide In- In Intentions In Intentions will be barred from rom landIng All visitors must buy trip round round tares fares Officials of ot the home office In Tokyo are frankly pessimistic Last year more than persons lost their lives In crater I despite every effort toI to put Jut a stop slop to the suicide craze The crater Is seven miles around and It Is not humanly pos A jle le to net-In net this his vast territory as have bl been n other places |