SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE. MANY PERSONS KILLED OR INJURED.
(PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Athens, September 10. A severe shock of earthquake has been experienced at Vostitza, a town near the Gulf of liepaato, and Qther towns m the vicinity. Several bouses were wrecked, and many pergons were killed or injured. [Tae Gulf of Lepanto, or Oorlnth, runs for mora than a handled milea op between the peninsula of the Moren aud the mainland, and bears a oloae resemblance to many of the Norwegian fiords. Vobtllza is on the aouthern shore. The whole ! region Is subject to earthquakes, some of which have been of fearful severity, and there are numerous traces of igneous action. The Islands of Mllo and Santorlnl, avray to the South-east— ir q the Grecian' ArohipeUgo—are aQtlvely vol« oanio ; Santorinl ' being 1 regarded ?a tha grand oeatrp of Toloimp aotlonj -
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1943, 13 September 1888, Page 2
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141SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE. MANY PERSONS KILLED OR INJURED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1943, 13 September 1888, Page 2
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