Peasants Fleeing From Earthquake Area
(Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON, August 24. Panic-stricken peasants are still fleeing from Italy’s earthquake belt around Foggia. says Reuter's Bari correspondent. Crowds are fighting desperately to board trains leaving the area. . . Red Cross supplies are being rushed up to several hundred homeless. | Some houses, according to reports, were swallowed up as great ciacL> opened in the earth. Old women in a small village neai Foggia, who predicted the earthquakes, were saved from lynching only by police intervention.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 August 1948, Page 5
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