TERRIBLE QUAKES
AGAIN IN NOR-WEST INDIA. United Press Association— By Electrb Telegraph.—Copyright.) DELHI, 'September 2. There was a fresh earthquake shock in North-west India to-day. It is now revealed that there was a. terrific quake at the week-end, and that it was responsible for eighty deaths in the Kacchi-Kalat State in Baluchistan, and that a town named Dhadar was destroyed. A high death-roll is feared. N.Z. SYMPATHY WITH VICTIMS'. WELLINGTON, September 2The following is a copy of a message which was sent to-day by' the Governor-General to the Viceroy of India, in connection with the earthquake disaster in that country: “The Government and people of New Zealand join with me in expressing to Your Excellency profound sympathy with the inhabitants of the earthquake stricken area' of India who have suffered bereavement, personal injury, and heavy material loss in the recent terrible disaster 'which iha-s befallen them. We remember with gratitude the sympathy extended us by the people of India, in our own similar affliction in February last.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1931, Page 5
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167TERRIBLE QUAKES Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1931, Page 5
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