EARTHQUAKE RUIN IN ARMENIA

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3492, 30 October 1926, Page 9

EARTHQUAKE RUIN IN ARMENIA

Terrible Suffering of Homeless People

CHILDREN DYING OF

NEGLECT

[By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Friday, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, Oc.t 29.

Harrowing details of the damage and loss of life and distress caused by the earthquake in Armenia, are arriving from Constantinople, and from Leninakhan, the capital of Russian Armenia. .

It is stated that within a fifteen mile zone around Leninakhan, twelve Villages were destroyed completely, and twenty-three others partly. The killed number three hundred, and the injured several thousands. Miss Olive Hill, of the Near East Relief Committee, says she “saw one camp containing eleven thousand homeless people. Six hundred houses at Leninakhan were wrecked. The most pathetic feature is the plight of the children, who, weakened by privation, are falling ill and dying in large numbers. I gathered together a thousand, and made an offer to the Government that we would succour all between the ages of two and twelve, through the Winter Committee, which has established field hospitals, where injured people are arriving hourly, many requiring amputations. There Is great scarcity of food as the cattle have been killed wholesale.”