JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18663, 20 March 1924, Page 7

JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE.

FRESH REGION VISITED. VIOLENT SHOCK ON SAKHALIN SETTLEMENT DEVASTATED. t — By Telegraph—Press Association— (Received 6.35 p.m.) A. and N.Z. NEW YORK, Mar. 18. The Tokio fcorrespondent of the United. Press of America learns that another earthquake disaster has visited Japan. The centre of the disturbance is Kashiku, a small. Japanese colony on Sakhalin Island, where great vertical horizontal tremors opened huge fissures in the earth, destroyed dwellings and caused many casualties. The River Nayori, immediately following the earthquake, began rising rapidly. Tremors were felt in Tokio. The origin of the disturbance is believed to be the sea bottom near tho Kurile Islands. Relief measures have been started to aid the injured and homeless on Sakhalin. The island of Sakhalin lies off tho coast of Eastern Siberia, to the north of Japan proper. .The southern half of the island was ceded to Japan by Russia after the Russo-Japanese war. It was previously held by Japan until 1875. Tho northern half of the island has also been in Japanese occupation since the Russian revolution. Most Of the Japanese settlers in the south are engaged in fishing. >;