HUNDREDS DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 281, 27 November 1930, Page 7

HUNDREDS DEAD.

JAPANESE DISASTER. Severe Earthquake Reaps Heavy Toll. SCANT DETAILS RECEIVED, (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) TOKYO, November 26. An exceedingly severe earthquake occurred in Japan at 4 a.m. to-day. Tokyo and Yokohama were rocked, but no damage was done in either city. The ccntrc of the' upheaval was the Iclzu peninsula, where several villages were devastated, and it is feared that the casualties were very heavy. At the city of Mishama many houses collapsed and 200 people were killed. Two regiments of soldiers are engaged in rescue work and in maintaining order there. Communications have been interrupted, but foreigners are reported to be safe in tlio Miyanoshita, Mount Hakone, district. Landslides there dislocated the electric car and motor services. Much damage was done at Odawara, where the earth tremors lasted half an hour. A report from Atami states that several houses collapsed there and five students were buried beneath debris. Owing to a bridge collapsing at Hagaoka Springs 20 people lost their lives. FELT IN N.Z. RECORD AT WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A very good record of the Japanese earthquake was obtained at the Kelburn Observatory. In point of magnitude the shake is in no way comparable to the big one of 1923, of which also a particularly good record was obtained at Kelburn.