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Show MQlMESlOIWfJ VOLCANO i ACiRDlNG T 0: M AMERICAN PROFOSSOK j FORT DE FRANCE. Martinique, March 9. By telephone from the Government Gov-ernment observatory, adjacent to Mont Pelee, Prof. Hellprin of the University of Pennsylvania says he has made an ascent of the crater. He has found It cjulet. Despite reports to the contrary, con-trary, there were no stuns of a renefral of activity on February 16, when Martinique Mar-tinique sustained a violent shock. Sev- ' eral houses in. Fort de France fell. Many others were damaged and con- demned. They are - now being, torn down. . - Since then there . have been eighty 1 shocks felt in this city. They, are dl- .. minlshlng In violence, .. but are fre- quent. The maximum vertical ampll- 1 tude of the first was thirty-five mill-...... meters. This shock was preceded by . -tremors. The population is much alarmed, and many went to the country, coun-try, where they are still sleeping under v tents tonight. . ' ; Prof. Hellprin la positive the earth- w quake shocks have no connection with the volcano. He says they are due to a slow settling of the bed of the Carlo-, ' bean sea. ... ,. |