'QUAKES IN ASIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 April 1938, Page 7

'QUAKES IN ASIA

WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION OVER 800 LIVES LOST [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. April 22, 10.30 a.m.). ANGORA, April 21. The known dead in the central Anatolian earthquakes, total 800. Eightee’h villages were totally destroyed and 22 partly. Fifty thousand panic-stricken people are homeless. The Government Is rushing relief. Vast.areas are laid waste. There is indescribable devastation and chaos. Refugees describe deep fissures, from which boiling water was spoutbig- . „ Shocks are continuing, accompanied by terrific subterranean rumblings. MAINLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN. \ (Received April 22, 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 21. ■ “The Telegraph’s” Istanbul correspondent says: Latest reports from the devastated area describe the dreadful havoc, and indicate that many bodies are still being dug up from the ruins. The majority of the victims are women and children, as ■ all-the ablqbodied men were working in the fields when the earthquake began. The centre of the disturbance was apparently the village of Akpinar, of which only a heap of ruins remains. Fiftv thousand are camping in the open to-night, because their homes are destroyed, or they fear further shakes.