DREADFUL HAVOC
8.15 P.M. EDITION
ANATOLIA DEVASTATED. BODIES BEING DUG UP. (United Press Association.—By Electric T elegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 22, 1 p.m. LONDON, April 21. The Daily Telegraph’s Istanbul correspondent “says: Latest reports from the devastated area in Anatolia, where 800 persons were killed in earthquakes, 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 able-bodied men were working in the fields when tho earthquake began. The centre of the disturbance was apparently in the village of Akpinar, of which only a heap of ruins remains. Fifty thousand - persons are camping in the open to-night because their homes have been destroyed or for fear of further shakes.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 22 April 1938, Page 8
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