BARRACKS AT QUETTA
INDIA'S 3IG EARTHQUAKE
AIR FORCE CASUALTIES
United Press association—By Electric Tel»eraDh—Copyright. (Received June 1, 2 p.m.) LONDON, May 31. Over four hundred miles of territory have been devastated in one of the worst earthquakes ever known to India. Details are still meagre. The most thickly-populated portions of Quetta were completely flattei»ui out.
Chaman, a frontier post sixty miloa to the north, was wiped out, white landslides destroyed many neighbour-, ing villages.
The Air Force barracks at Quetta are now mere debris, wherein are v.-.-bodies of members of the Air Force who were killed while sleeping. Many aeroplanes were damaged by falling hangars.
In addition to the Air Force casualties it is believed that the British civil and military death roll is 72 and , the number of injured 92.. At least 1500 Indians are in hospital- .
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 10
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