Show SEE SPIRITS OF CRATER VICTIMS via IMS r ghostly visitors bring fear to japanese C curling uri up in the smoke which annin ris rises es f from the crater of 0 All mohara hara japans famous suicide volcano the ghostly images of three girls were seen by terror stricken villagers on the island ot of remembering that mohara rose to fame as a lovers death tryst following suicides of three high school girls the villagers sold said the specter of the girls was an III omen frightened the superstitious said the dushl master was about to rise from the land of fire to lure visitors to Jig jiroku oku 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 nd 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 the spectators horrified and speechless looked at each other another man a few year s older came out from the throng and without saying a word walked as though in a trance and dropped into the flery 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 his bis kimono and with nothing on except shorts stepped over the brink into the world beyond hardly had the talk of these suicides died down when two days later three more men flung themselves 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 must buy round trip tares fares officials of the home office in tokyo tire are frankly pessimistic pessi last year more than SOO persons lost their lives in Mih araa crater despite every ev ery effort to put pat a stop to the suicide craze craz eThe the crater Js is seven miles around and it Is not humanly pos C jle ae to net in tills vast territory as 11 have been other crystin places |