Show SEE SPIRITS OF CRATER VICTIMS qs ghostly gho atly visitors bring fear to japanese curling up in tile smoke which rises from the crater of ill hara japans famous suicide volcano tile the ghostly images of three oliree girls were seen by terror stricken villagers on the tha island of that silvara rose to fame as it a lovers death tryst following suicides 0 of three school girls tile villagers ellla ers said the specter of the girls was wag un an III omen frightened the alio superstitious said the dushl master was about to rise from tile the land rif of fire to lure visitors to Jig jiroku oku tile the abode of the devil three days later visitors from tokyo just across the bay swarmed to the island partly out of curiosity and partly because it was sunday and the islands natural beauty and warmth attracted them at 1030 a m about spectators were gathered on the spot from which persons committing suicide plunge to their death suddenly a young man scarcely twenty five ran forward and flung himself headlong into the crater As tile the spectators horrified and speechless looked at each other another man a few years older came out from the throng and without saying a word walked as though in a trance and dropped into the fiery pit nervously the spectators moved away afraid that some unseen hand might pull them into the smoldering inferno suddenly another youth about twenty three ran to the edge of the crater stripped himself of ills kimono and with nothing on except shorts stopped stepped over the brink into the world beyond hardly had the talk of these sul cities died down when two days later three more men flung themselves set ves into the fire emitting abyss one after another as many spectators looked on the police have decided that hereafter all visitors to the island will be questioned before being permitted to land those suspected of suicide intentions tent ions will be barred from landing all visitors Ni must buy round trip fares officials of the home office ln n tokyo are frankly pessimistic last year more than SOO persons lost their lives in ili mili aras crater il fiille every effort to put fl a stop to the suicide craze the critter cruter la is seven milci around art aind it is in not imm atily posa pos le ie to net ln in this vast territory as haac bon other dulcide trysting Il places illanes laces |