EARTHQUAKE IN FRANCE.
BIG FISSURE OPENED IN A HILLSIDE. PEOPLE SPEND~NIGHT IN OPEN AIR. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. PARIS, 29th March. A violent earthquake occurred sin the Department,of Correze, in the South of France. It opened a ftesura five yards wide ih. a hillside overlooking the' village of St. Solve. % • The railway station yard was strewn with rocks. Furniture was overt urned.in the house* and the occupants spent the night out of doors in spite of drenching rain. [Correze, belonging to the central plateau of France lies to the w^st of the mountains of Auvergne, and almost entirely to the basin of Dordogne, which traverses the eouth-etibt. The higher districts form an extensive region of plateaux, composed of granite, gneiss, and mica-6chibts, with a thin covering of fcoil. The highest point in Mount Beseon, 3230 ft.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 5
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