CHINA DISASTER
HEAVY DEATH ROLL DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.! (Received this day at 1.15 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Setember 27. AT hen not at war, it has its famine, floods and earthquakes which actually take a tremendous toll of China. Official reports from Nanking showin the Yellow River floods this winter*, 1 approximately fifty thousand persons lost their lives and two million were adversely affected, one million being starving and receiving relief. A brief message now reports an earthquake- in Western Szechuen in which it is estimated that at least seven thousand Chinese' perished, during three shakes, which rocked Mowsien and Heisuikow districts where thousands of houses collapsed. Investigators consider it the worst calamity of its kind in the past century.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1933, Page 5
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