HOUSES SWEPT AWAY BY WATERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 9

HOUSES SWEPT AWAY BY WATERS

DISASTROUS QUAKE BL4CK SEA CALAMITY By Cable. Press Association.—Copyright Reed 9.5 a.m. MOSCOW, Thursday. An earthquake on the Black Sea ccast cracked tne reservoir at Oreanda. Water escaping toward the lake overwhelmed 800 houses in the Limen district. A huge landmark, known as “Napo - eon.” crumbled to fragments.—A. an I X.Z.-Sun. DISASTER PREDICTED BRITISH EXPERTS’ VIEW LONDON, Wednesday. ' The “Westminster Gazette” says scientists, including Sir Richard Gregory, Professor of Astronomy, Queen's College, London, are anticipating the occurrence of a disastrous earthquake within a year. They think it will happen somewhere along the fault-line which, since the San Francisco catastrophe of 1906, has stretched across the Atlantic to mid-Europe and Turkestan and from there to Japan, owing, it is believed, to the earth cracking. Sir Richard Gregory says formerly many shocks have been preludes to a violent earthquake. The increases iu number and frequency of shocks in the past two years, particularly in 1927, causes the expectation of a new disaster.—Sun