RESULTS OF EARTHQUAKE

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1934, Page 9

RESULTS OF EARTHQUAKE

DEATH ROLL DAILY INCREASE HUNDREDS OF BODIES UNEARTHED. PITIABLE PLIGHT OF SURVIVORS. THOUSANDS FACING STARVATION. 'By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. Calcutta, Jan. 26. An authoritative statement from Patna warmly welcomes the financial help from India and England, which is going to the relief of immediate earthquake distress, providing blankets and comforts for the living and disposing of the dead. The death roll is increasing by hundreds daily as bodies are unearthed. Only those who have seen the shattered ruins of the towns and the pitiable plight of the wretched survivors can understand the extent of the suffering and wholesale destruction.. /' Many sugar factories have been destroyed, leaving thousands of cultivators with sugar cane crops which they are unable to dispose of. They are faced with starvation. , Advices from Khatmandu state that the earthquake death-roll is likely to be higher than was at first estimated in Nepal, where according to a British envoy up to January 21, six days after the disaster, 2900 bodies had been recovered in the capital. . There were no casualties in the British legation buildings, which were seriously damaged. Every fifth house appears to have been levelled.