DISASTROUS 'QUAKE
SOUTH EUROPE SHAKEN MANY DEATHS REPORTED i By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.] BELGRADE, March 8. King Alexander and the Prime Minister (M. Zizkovitch) have started for Southern Serbia, the scene of disastrous earthquakes during the past 48 hours resulting ; n 24 being killed and 70 injured. The terror-stricken populace have left the damaged villages in the Vardar district, driving their flocks, and arc camped in the open country. No houses are standing at Tirava and Valancovo. Railways and bridges are wrecked. One field telephone is communicating with the outer world. The army and civil authorities are organising relief. A Sofia message states that .150 were killed and 500 injured in Northern Yugoslavia and 1000 buildings demolished, chiefly in Radomir, Kustendil, and Petrich.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 58, 10 March 1931, Page 7
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