The closest thing to Hell on earth last week was in the midst of the seaa tortured little patch of dismal grey rock some 235 miles south of Tokyo. For at least four weekssince it was first sighted by the crew of a British destroyerthe islet, a product of submarine volcanic eruption, has been boiling the sea into clouds of sulphurous steam, belching great blasts of smoke and roiling the muddy bottom for miles around.
First photographs of the world's newest island arrived in the U.S. last week. Its dimensions, at last report: about 80 feet high, 150 by 200 yards in...
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