FLOOD FOLLOWS QUAKE

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVIII, Issue 45, 3 January 1940, Page 3

FLOOD FOLLOWS QUAKE

DEATH ROLL OF FORTY-FIYE THOUSAND. INSTANBUL, December 31, The whole of the Turkish nation has been mobilised for the mighty task of rescuing the survivors of the earthquake. As the forces are being marshalled, the country is again trembling under new shocks, which scientists believe may continue for six months. The death roll is mounting hourly as news from the doomed towns filters out. Great chasms have split the snoWswept countryside and entire villages have disappeared. Blizzards and the rising flood waters joined forces with the subterranean upheavals, making the plight of the refugees terrible beyond endurance. It is officially estimated in Ankara that 45,000 are dead as a result of the earthquake. While rescue work is proeeedng villagers are taking refuge in the mountains from the Anatolian floods.