DISASTER IN TURKEY
HEAVY EARTHQUAKE CAUSES DEATHS & DAMAGE 13,000 PEOPLE KILLED ACCORDING TO BERLIN RADIO. THOUSANDS OF HOMES DESTROYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, June 21. The deathroll in a severe earthquake in Turkey is now stated by the Berlin radio to be 15,000. Earthquake tremors continue.
Official details of the damage are meagre, because of an interruption of services. An Ankara report received in London says telegraph and telephone communications between Ankara and Istanbul have been interrupted. The Ankara Express was derailed by the earthquake. Relief trains are rushing medical supplies and will take the injured to the nearest hospital centres. Food relief is being arranged and officials are making plans for the accommodation of thousands who lost their homes. Extra police have been rushed to the damaged centres to assist in maintaining order.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1943, Page 4
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