GREEK CALAMITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 233, 1 October 1932, Page 9

GREEK CALAMITY.

A PEOPLE'S TERROR. Gallant Rescue Work By British Jack Tars. EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATION. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyri^it) ATHENS, September 30. Most of the- casualties in the areas in the Chalcidice district, which experienced the further earthquake yesterday, were women and children. The inhabitants are terrified owing to rumours that the whole of the Chalcidiee Peninsula is likely to sink. Geologists.are trying to calm their fears. Religious services are being held day and night in the open air. The most severe shock heaped earth in some villages 200 ft high. Sulphurous fumes and a dust cloud in the atmosphere are rendering breathing difficult. With the earthquakes continuing and debris falling around them, British bluejackets are performing gallant rescue work at leriseos. They are demolishing the wreckage and releasing the injured, to whom Admiral Sir Ernie Ohatfield is personally attending. The people are deeply impressed by the British, valour. It is feared that many people, imprisoned in the ruins, are doomed. There is panic at Salonika, where 50 buildings have been damaged. Crowds of the inhabitants arc leaving to find safer quarters. They are outnumbered, however, by the streams of incoming refugees who report that the Chalcidice region is a scene of appalling desolation.