ENGLAND SHAKEN.
SEVERE EARTHQUAKE. CENTRE OF DISTURBANCE. IN NORTH SEA. 250 MILES OFF YORKSHIRE. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, June 8. An expert seismologist expresses the opinion that the earth tremor resulted from a disturbance the centre of which was in the North Sea, 250 miles from Yorkshire. It was the heaviest known in Britain and produced weird effects. At Madame Tussaud’s waxworks in London the head of the effigy of the murderer Crippen was split. One half crashed on to the floor and the other lay resting on the figure’s shoulder, adding a new horror to the chamber of horrors. The head of the model of the Italian boxer Camera fell between the eUlgies of Jimmy Wilde and Steve Donoghue. The right arm of the figure of Mrs Helen Wills-Moody, the tennis star, fell at the feet of the model of Mademoiselle Suzanne Lenglen.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18350, 9 June 1931, Page 7
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146ENGLAND SHAKEN. Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18350, 9 June 1931, Page 7
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