’QUAKE SETS JAPAN SHAKING AGAIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19238, 27 November 1930, Page 1

’QUAKE SETS JAPAN SHAKING AGAIN.

HUNDREDS OF, CASUALTIES ARE FEARED AS RESULT (United Press Assn.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) TOKIO, November 26. At least two hundred persons were killed as a result of an severe earthquake which rocked Japan at four o’clock this morning. The heaviest damage was done at the village of Mishima, and twenty persons were killed when a bridge collapsed at Hagaoka Springs. Tokio and Yokohama were rocked, but suffered little damage. The earthquake apparently had its centre on the Idzu Peninsula, where a number of villages were devastated. Estimates of the casualties vary from four hundred and fifty to nine hundred. Communication has been interrupted, but foreigners are reported to be safe, in the Miyanoshita and Hakone district, where landslides suspended elec-tric-car lines and motor services. Many houses collapsed at Mishima and much damage was done at Odawara. The shake lasted for thirty minutes. A report from Atami states that houses collapsed and five students are buried. Two regiments of soldiers have been sent to Mishima to assist in the rescue work, and maintain order. GOOD RECORD MADE AT KELBURN OBSERVATORY. Per Pressr Association. WELLINGTON, November 27. A very good record of the Japanese earthquake was obtained at the Kelbum Observatory. In point of magnitude, the shake is in no way comparable to the big one of 1923, of which a particularly good record was obtained at Kelburn.