NEW SHOCK YESTERDAY
COMMUNICATIONS UPSET
(Received June 3, 11 a.m.)
QUETTA, June 2.
At a first estimate the damage caused by the earthquake is valued at £2,250,000.
Three thousand bodies have already been cremated. .
It is feared that the mountain tribes will take advantage of the disaster to swoop down and loot the towns, though it is likely that the earthquake also wrecked the tribal villages.
Another shock occurred at 2.40 p.m. today, lasting 45 seconds. It reinterrupted communications.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 9
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79NEW SHOCK YESTERDAY Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 9
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