THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 30, 1939
Snowstorms And Blizzards Add To Quake Tragedy
AREA OF 60,000 SQUARE MILES INVOLVED: MINIMUM DEATHROLL PUT AT 30,000
Ankara, To-day.
PLANS FOR
MINDANAO
SNOW STORMS AND BLIZZARDS are sweeping
across stricken Anatolia. Although no official JEWISH figures of the losses can yet be ascertained, COLONY IN owing to the disrupted communications, the death roll is expected to be well over 30,000. Sixteen provincial towns, of from 12,000 to 40,000 inhabitants, and over 90 villages have suffered. Martial law has been proclaimed in Anatolia and the soldiers and police are carrying out patrols to prevent pillage, looting, etc.
The
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ROOSEVELT'S SON IN CAR
SMASH
Winchester (Va), To-day.
Mr. Franklin Roosevelt Jr. and his wife are reported to have been involved in a motor acci. dent.
The President's son and his wife were driving to Washing- ton from northern Virginia when the accident occurred.
Both were cut and bruised and are now in hospital.-Reuter.
WATER
METER RENT
The following rates for meter rents are published in accordance with the new system of quarterly collection pro-
Shanghai, To-day. Information gathered from the local office of the Jewish Relief Committee leads to the belief that the number of Jewish refugees, now The Turkish Parliament has made snapped telephone wires, combined living in Shanghai and able to settle a special grant for relief funds and with snowstorms and ice-bound roads, in Mindanao will be most limited, in subscription lists have been opened are holding up casualty lists and pre-view of the fact that the American all over Turkey for the creation of venting rescue parties reaching the committee of experts dealing with the unofficial funds for the same purpose. areas where they are most needed. question of a Jewish settlement in thejected:---
Government 'The Turkish
plans to
is whole of Turkey has been Philippines
interested in men move thousands of the stricken people thrown into mourning as news is re-
between the ages of 18 and 27 with preferably to other parts of the country, where ceived that the casualties are leaping farming experience and
bachelors. temporarily accom- to tens of thousands.
Furthermore, they must pledge not 111⁄2'
farms leave their
for a certain 2 3 period and not move to large cities.
Professor Reiss, well-known der-4
and matologist
chairman of the 6 medical board of the refugee commit- lee, declared that Mindanao can be considered as agreeable for residence must be
the despite the tropical character. Never- whole, theless, refugees
work there young people.
can
they modated.
be
Messages of sympathy are pouring in from all parts of the globe.
King George VI of England has
sent a personal
message of condol-
-
Reuter.
ROOSEVELT,
ences to the Turkish Premier, and the RELIGION
British Ambassador been instructed to sympathy of
ment.
has in Ankara convey the deep
His Majesty's Govern-
A similar message of condolences has been sent by M. Lebrun,
French Premier.
Reuter.
FURTHER SHOCKS
POSSIBLE
the
Ankara, To-day. Minimum estimates of the casualties in the earth- quake are now given as 30,000...
An area of 60,000 square miles that took the full force of the shocks, re- sembles one vast open-air hospital and cemetery.
A warning that shocks may re- cur in the next 10 days and pos- sibly over a longer period, given by the Director of Istanbul
was
AND PEACE
Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt declared yes- terday that he would welcome at the White House religious leaders of all faiths who desire to discuss efforts to achieve world peace.
The President expressed the hope that religious leaders would call on him and discuss any peace measures they had in mind.→Reuter.
INTERNMENT OF TACOMA
New York, To-day.
that It is reported
authoritative
Observatory. He said the violence of the earth- | circles in Uruguay say that a decree quake showed a geological pheno-ordering the Internment of the crew menon 16 miles deep, which might of the German tanker Tacoma for take a long time to settle into place.
TENS OF THOUSANDS
the duration of the war will shortly be signed by the President, owing to The full extent of the catastrophe the fact that the Tacoma was used still cannot be estimated, for twisted as a supply ship for the Admiral railway tracks, shattered bridges and Graf Spec-Reuter.
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