’QUAKES IN TURKEY
LARGE DEATH TOTAL
(Recd. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 22 It is feared that about one thousand persons were killed in a heavy earthquake in North-eastern Anatolia. Ihe affected area includes Tokat, Niksar and Erbaa. All the houses at Erbaa collapsed, and fires are still burning. The Swiss radio reports that a series of earthquake shocks rocked North-eastern and Central Turkey for the past month. President Ineunu, at present, is touring the devastated areas. The latest shocks occurred during his visit to one of the stricken areas, where scores have been killed and more than two thousand homes destroyed. Earthquakes have also shaken the district near Ankara, where tremors lasting two days killed twenty-five. The Berlin radio reported that high Turkish officials were among the victims. ______
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 December 1942, Page 5
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