EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA
TOWNS DESTROYED. THIRTEEN HUNDRED DEATHS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, June 11. The Australian Council of the China Inland Mission has received word from the Talifu of a devastating earthquake, which completely wrecked that town. Some 1300 were killed and a large number rendered homeless. Fire broke out in many quarters. All the buildings were destroyed. The foreign community suffered no bodily injury, and the members are returning to Yunnan-fu.
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Southland Times, Issue 19575, 12 June 1925, Page 5
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