EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20096, 27 November 1930, Page 11

EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN.

jOSHIMA SUFFERS

SEVERELY.

villages devastated.

j'WO HUNDRED DEATHS REPORTED. t>BS9S association-— B* KLECIBIO Sbaph-coptbigbt.) (Received November 26th, 9.20 p.m.) TOKIO, November 26. lok io and Yokohama were rocked by .. exceedingly severe earthquake at four o'clock this morning. No damage done here. Incoming reports say tljt the earthquake was centred on Izu Linsula, where villages were devastated. Official estimates of the casualty vary. Two hundred are dead, 'communication has been interrupted, foreigners are reported to be safe m jUysnosliita, Hakone district, where glides have suspended the electric ir and motor services. Many houses :*j ]s[)Se d at Mishima and much damage £ done at Odawara. The earthquake Zii thirty minutes. A report from ftanii states that houses collapsed and L students were buried. Two regiments at Mishima are engaged in rest». work and in maintaining order. city of Mishima suffered the heaviest. Twenty were killed when a bridge collapsed at Hagaoka springs. rilishima is the chief city in the Iz« Peninsula situated between Sagami and Suruga Bays, about CO miles from Tokio.]