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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 12, 1940
FURTHER 'QUAKE TREMORS
Fires Break Out: Rescue Workers Killed BUCHAREST Galatz, The Oil
Port Suffers Severely
RESCUE BID FAILS
Hopes of saving thirty:
olive beneath the ruins
FURTHER EARTHQUAKE tremors were
people who were trapped felt in Rumanio yesterday. Only slight dam-
in Bucharest itself.
age as a result of the fresh tremors is reported
of the Carlton Building skyscraper appear to have been abandoned.
The last voice has ceased to
reply on the telephone tine which had enabled the trap-
While rescue workers were busy on the debris of a new block of flats. however, oil tanks in the basement exploded and fires
ped to communicate with rebroke out.
Ecue workers since the disa$- ter on Sunday.
A number of rescue workers
It is feared that they have were killed and work had 10 now been asphyxiated.
be stopped.
Latest estimates show that at] Jeast 207 people were killed in the Carlton Building alone.
More than a thousand badly damaged houses in Bucharest | have been evacuated. Travellers recount that the oil) fleids are
a spectacle of desola- tion. Hundreds of villages said to have been razed to the ground. Tens of thousands of peasants are homeless.
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News from the provinces adds hourly to the total death-roll. -- Reuter.
HIGH AXIS OFFICERS KILLED
It is still not possible to form and clear idea of the total num~
ber of casualties or damage.
One Bucharest report says that casualty figures are coming in from village after village communications
gradually restored.
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The oil and grain port of Galatz hus also suffered heavy damage.
Moscow radio yesterday ген
were no casualties. The tremors
STRANGE
TALE FROM
INDO-CHINA
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Authorised Hanoi
cir-
ported feeling the "strongest shock cles categorically deny re- ever recorded," although no ser-ports spread abroad alleg- ous damage was done and there ing the ill-treatment of were particularly severe in South | Annamites in Indo-China. Russian, cities like Odessa,
The reports claimed that severe Daniage and casualties are re-measures of repression were being ported from a number of points in taken in Indo-China against An-
and the Ukaine.
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL" Bessarabia
MANY HIGH GERMAN AND ITALIAN MILITARY OFFICERS ARE REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE RUMANIAN EARTH- QUAKE. THE PLOETSI OIL-FIELDS. THE MOST IMPORTANT IN RUMANIA, ARE REPORTED TO BE ON FIRE. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE,
Reuter.
WEATHER REPORT
namites coming into contact with the Japanese forces, and some re- ports even alleged that entire An- namite villages have been burn- ed down because the villagers of- fered boiled water to the Ja- panese.
The Royal Observatory reports It is also alleged that Anna- that the anticyclone is extending mites greeting the Japanese eastward and diminishing. in troops were being arrested. intensity. Pressure is relatively. Regarding the report that all low between the Visayas and Frenchmen in Indo-China be- guam.
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tween the ages of 40 and 55 were being mobilised and that impor- tant military forces are being sent towards the Thai frontier, these same circles deny these allega- tions.
The French authorities state that they are merely "taking military measures along the Thailand frontier to meet with the present situation."—Havas,
AUTOMOBILE LABORATORY
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") THE FIRST GOVERNMENT AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH LABORATORY IN JAPAN: WILL BE CONSTRUCTED SHORTLY OUTSIDE TOKYO, ACCORDING TO THE “JAPAN TIMES.” Twu leading companies
have supported the plan, donating 1,500,000 yen for the purpose.
The Japanese Government is appropriating 2,500,000 yen for the purchase of equipment and |500,000 yen for the current year's
cxpenses.
Construction starts shortly, but the plant will not be completed until 1942. Havas,
ARMISTICE DAY
IN SHANGHAI
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Armistice Day was observed quietly in Shanghai.
In the morning the Fourth: U.S. Marines and representatives of Various American organisations met at the Cenotaph at 11 o'clock for n 20 minutes' commemmora- tion service..
They laid wreaths ot the me- morial while, an address was given by the Marines Chaplain. *..*
An earlier ceremony was held at the Cenotaph when the British and French foined. In a coinmon wreath-laying ceremony--Havas,
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