Cities Completely Effaced by Further Quakes
550 VILLAGES IN ONE PROVINCE IN RUINS Received Monday, 10.30 p.m. ISTANBUL, January 1. A new terror is sweeping Western Turkey as flood-waters from the rivers in the Smyrna, Brusa and Adnanople districts devastate the countryside. The inhabitants, cattle and crops are engulfed m the growing torrent, which has produced another great army of homeless totalling millions. The earthquake-riven areas north and east suffered further shocks, especially at Tokat and Erzindjan, which are now completely effaced and have become a vast graveyard of tombstoned and snowcapped ruins. The half-frozen survivors are storming the relief trains, wolfing food. Many are reported to have become insane and have been removed to asylums. It is estimated that 550 villages in the Erzindjan province are m ruins.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 1, 2 January 1940, Page 7
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