TERROR-FILLED STORIES OF EARTHQUAKE
j LONDON, June 3. , t Uneounted thousands are homeless and an uneounted number of villages t levelled in the provinces of Mush and Erzerum following the earthcpiake on May 31, 'says the Istanbul correspondent of the American Associated Press. It is likelv to be davs before a full account is available, but terror-filled stories are now beginning to trickle from isolated Eastern Turkev. The knoAvn death roll is now 390, but more than 600 are believed to have been crushed to death during the violeht seven seconds' earth movement. No j word has been received from many j communities.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 June 1946, Page 5
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