Show SEE SPIRITS OF II CRATER VICTIMS Ghostly Visitors Bring Fear to Japanese Curling up In the tho smoke which rises from the crater ern tel of or Japans Japan's famous suicide volcano tho the ghostly Images of or three girls were seen en by terror-stricken terror villagers on I the tho Island of or Remembering that rose roso to fame ns as a love lov lovers lovers' byera ers ers' death tryst following suicides of three high school girls tho the villagers ers said the specter of the girls was un an omen Frightened rl tho the superstitious said the tho volcano's master was about to rise from the tho land of or fire to lure luro visitors to the abode of ot the devil Three days dars 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 Island's natural beauty and warmth attracted them At 1030 10 30 a. a a m. m about spectators were gathered on tho the spot from which persons committing suicide plunge e to their death Suddenly a ayoung ayoung young man scarcely twenty five ve ran forward and flung himself headlong Into the crater As the spectators horrified and speechless looked at each other another man a n few tew years older came out from the throng and without saying a word walked as though in a trance and dropped Into the fiery Cery pit Nervously r the spectators moved away afraid that some unseen hand might pull them Into the smoldering Inferno Suddenly another youth about twentythree twenty ran to the edge of or the tho crater stripped himself of ot his kimono and with nothing on ex cx except shorts short stepped over the brink Into tho the world beyond Hardly had the talk of or these sol sat suicides codes died down when two days later three more men flung Cung them them- themselves themselves selves Into the tho fire emitting abyss one after another as os many spectators tors tore looked on The Tho police havo have decided that here hero hereafter hereafter after all aU visitors to the Island will be questioned before being permitted to land Those ThOle suspected of ot suicide In In- Intentions IntentIons Intentions will be barred from landing All An visitors must buy round trIp round trip fares Officials of or the home once office In Tokyo are frankly pessimistic pe Last year more than SOO persons lost their lives JIves in crater r despite every effort to put n a stop to lo lothe the suicide craze The crater Is I seven miles mlle around and It Is H not humanly pos to net-In net this vast territory as have been b n other suicide places |