DEVASTATED AREAS
LEFT BY THE ANATOLIAN EARTHQUAKES MANY VILLAGES DESTROYED. EIGHT HUNDRED KNOWN DEAD. (Recd This Day, 9.55 a.m.) ANGORA, April 21. The known dead in the Central Anatolian earthquakes total 800. Eighteen villages were totally destroyed and twenty-two partly. Fifty thousand panic-stricken people are homeless. The Government is rushing relief. Vast areas have been laid waste and there is indescribable devastation and chaos. The refugees describe deep fissures from which boiling water is spouting. Shocks are continuing, accompanied by terrific subterranean rumblings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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83DEVASTATED AREAS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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