SERIOUS QUAKE IN GREECE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19301, 30 September 1932, Page 9

SERIOUS QUAKE IN GREECE

COUNTRYSIDE IN PANIC DESTRUCTIVE TIDAL WAVE United Press Association —By Electric Tel egraph—Copyrtgh t ATHENS, September 28. The occupants of 23 villages destroyed by the earthquake are wandering the countryside in panic, praying for deliverance from the terror. It is reported that 200 Asia Minor refugee families were exterminated. On the island of Amogiani, a strange light seaward heralded a destructive tidal wave. It is believed that the famous monastery of Mount Athos has been badly damaged. Many miners were buried in the galleries of Cassandra and Stratonikion. (Mount Athos is in Macedonia, projecting like a promontory into the yEgean Sea, with an elevation of 6,780 feet. When Xerxes invaded Greece, he made a trench of a mile and a half in length at the foot of this mountain, into which he brought the sea-waterr and passed his fleet through it. Vestiges of this canal have been found. Athos is now called Monte Santo, and the district is famous for the number of monasteries and hermitages, some of them the oldest in Europe. There are more than 900 churches and chapels, and some most ancient and valuable manuscripts are preserved there).

WARSHIPS TO RESCUE. HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST. British omclal Wireless (Received September 29, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, September 28. British warships are hastening to the aid of refugees in the Mount Athos district of Greece, where a tragic situation exists as a result of a great earthquake. According to reports from Athens, hundreds of lives have been lost, and thousands rendered homeless. To-day the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet (Sir Earle Chaffield) proceeded to the devastated area with all available ships, the flagship, Queen Elizabeth, with three other battleships, Revenge, Resolution and Royal Oak, and the fourth destroyer flotilla.