GREECE STRICKEN

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1928, Page 12

GREECE STRICKEN

MANY EARTHQUAKES

Twenty Heavy Tremors In 24 Hours.

30 DEAD, 10,000 HOMELESS. I Ausl r.i liii ii Press Assn. --I uit oil Service.) (IW-eiveil 2.:t0 p.m.) .ATHKNS, April .Miiny carl iiqnnkc shocks have occurred in (Jrcece. Altogether 20 nt' varying strength have boon i 'ffonlccl at Pelpo[M>|iiiosus in 24 Jiniirs.

Corinth and many villages in the vicinity were heavily damaged. So far ;>n deaths have been repotted and In,(100 are homeless and destitute.

At Corinth, the majority of the populiioo were warned by tremors during the night and had evacuated their houses before a violent shock, which came 45 mint!ten later. The powerhouse was demolished and the ritv is in darkness.

There are fiUOO homeless elsewhere, including Loutrnki, a popular watering place, where only the newest hotels resisted the shocks and a crevasse 250 I'eet long has appeared.

Ret'npi'PH iire in the direst misery wiili tlicir belongings buried in the debris. M:inv urc half Hail. The Government luih granted ,C 1 :t,500 for relief, ami Ministers are visiting the devastated ii i en s.