CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE.

100,000 KILLED

CHINESE EARTHQUAK|-

(Australian A- N.Z. Cable Association.)

SHANGHAI, July 2s

Alter n lapse of two months, owing to lack of eoiimiunieation, resulting from tlie existing disorders in Chinn, a letter from Monseigneur Buddehrot, the Homan Catholie Vicar Apostolic ol Hnnehow, in the Kansu Province, supplies details of the terrible cart.lirpnikc that occurred on the twenty-third <>f -May last. 'l'he Monseigneur estimates that one Jiundred thousand people perished. The survivors itre living in huts, and they practically are without food or clothing. At the town of lushing, lie says, one hundred people were in the Church when it collapsed. Many of them were killed, including the Convent Mother Superior. In other parts of the town houses collapsed wholesale. Thousands were buried.

Many other towns and villages with irta radius of seventy kilometres wer. and thousands of peopk perished therein.

The important town of Truinexz was practically buried beneath a mov ing mountain.

Following after the first disastrous quake, shocks occurred daily, adding terror to the distress and destruction, which missionaries were working heroically and feverishly to alleviate. 'Jhe letter adds that the full extent of the havoc is not yet known, but the Monseigneur describes the visitation as being among the world’s greatest catastrophes.