PROFESSIONAL RUNNING

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 April 1935, Page 5

PROFESSIONAL RUNNING

STAWELL EASTER. GIFT RACE. ( WIN FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIAN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). MELBOURNE, April 22. The Stawell Easter Gift, 6f 130 .yards, £SOO, resulted: M. Bishop (Port Pirie, 74yds) I, J. G. Sullivan (Unley, South Australia, 9£yds) 2, C. Roberts (Ascotvale, Victoria, 10yds) 3. The race was won by five inches and the time was 12sec.

ally describes a tour early this morning. Hp travelled with the utmost difficulty owing to wrecked communications and swollen rivers, which are impeding the rescue work. There were a few fires, the correspondent says, hut the casualties were mostly due to the crashing walls of mud houses The victims were practically all Formosans of Chinese origin. Dead -were laid out on the roadsides in all directions. Many were already in rude wooden coffins.

Thousands of injured persons were receiving aid at improvised centres, hut the correspondent heard the screams of hundreds still entrapped in the ruins. Rain began at dawn, intensifying the agonies and further hindering the efforts of the Red Cross workers, army men and local officials. It was an extraordinary scene, with innumerable flattened mud houses seemingly raised by a giant hand, interspersed with the bodies of dead and dying. Many injured were lying on mats*.

The epicentre of the earthquake was a shallow fault 60 kilometres from Taihoku.

The big cities escaped the serious damage which was suffered by the interior /towns and villages in the north-west- of Formosa.

A woman gave birth to an infant within h.er crashing dwelling. Both were miraculously uninjured, but they were imprisoned, the grandmother shouting for help. Everywhere there was the odour of camphor—practically the only medicine immediately available and one of Formosa’s chief products,