EARTHQUAKE HAVOC
TERRIBLE VISITATION ‘ IN JAPAN CLIFFS WITH MANY HOUSES FALL INTO SEA. LANDSLIDES SWEEP AWAY WHOLE HAMLETS. 'By Telegraph—Press' Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) TOKIO, May .2. The record of earthquake casualties are incomplete, as the worst effect was on Hie Oga Peninsula where cliffs on which there were many houses fell into 1 the sea. It is not known how many were drowned in the seventy houses lost at Aikawa village, which was not totally sunk as reported. Photographs from the air in the Akita district show great crevices where landslides carried whole ham* lets from' their foundations. The 'latest reports state that 573 houses , were completely shattered and 1218 .damaged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1939, Page 6
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115EARTHQUAKE HAVOC Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1939, Page 6
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