1940-11-11 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 11, 1940

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RUMANIA 'QUAKE DEVASTATION

Not A Ceiling Left Intact In Whole Of Capital

Streets Impassable And Casualties

Over Two Thousand

DEVASTATION IN THE RUMANIAN EARTHQUAKE IS ON SUCH A WIDESPREAD SCALE THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, AT PRESENT, TO PRESENT ANY CLEAR PICTURE OF THE CATAS- TROPHE, WHICH MAY EASILY RANK AS THE GREATEST OF THE CENTURY.

At dawn yesterday, the majority of the t affic in Bucharest con- sisted of ambulances taking injured persons to hospital, and kun- dreds have been killed.

Reports from town after town show that scarcely a single area in Rumania escaped the effect of the violent tremor, which, judging from the limited reports already flowing in, did more damage in five minutes than all Germany's mass raids on London.

Not a single ceiling has been left intact in the whole of the capital.

wrecked the seismograph at Bel- grade Observatory.

In London, Mr. Shaw, the noted

seismographist, says that the first shock put his seismograph out of

action, but he was able to get it working again.

It was one of the most severe earthquakes ever recorded, he says.Reuter.

2,000 Casualties

Later. Reuter's Belgrade correspondent

ports received there from Buchar- 'est, the casualty toll will be at

Many streets are completely impassable, piled states that according to latest re- high with the debris of collapsed buildings.

jured.

The broad Colea Viftoriei must be examined before it is least 2,000 killed or seriously in- Bucharest's ⚫ most fashionable pronounced habitable. shopping street-is blocked at three places.

The eight-storeyed Carlton Building crashed in ruins and it; is. feared that 200 people buried in the debris.

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new Foreign Ministry bullding was cracked from top to bottom and the fourteen storeyed telephone exchange has been wrecked. Telephone com- munication: throughout country was interrupted hours.

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A large arta in the centre of the city has been roped off owing to the danger of final collapse of hundreds of shattered buildings,

Oil Plants Damaged

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ITALIAN BRITISH

CASUALTY LIST

Over one thousand Italian casualties are mentioned in the list for October published yesterday.

The list as issued follows:

North Africa: 58 killed, 137 wounded, one missing.

East Africa: 13 kill- ed, 27 wounded;

Navy: 128 killed; 250 wounded, 312 missing.

Air Force: 57 killed, 57 wounded, 54 miss- ing.

troops

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Native North Africa: 20 killed, 53 wounded.- Reuter.

DIPLOMACY IN CHINA

The staff of the British Embassy in Chungking has been greatly increas-` ed recently.

Sir Arthur Blackburn, accom- panied by Lady Blackburn, is ex- pected to arrive in Chungking by air to-morrow from Hong Kong to join the Embassy.

It is estimated that the staff of the Embassy may be expected to be increased to 19, which is the largest number of British Em- bassy staff in Chungking since the removal of the Chinese Gov- ernment to Chungking from Han- kow.

The British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, is to be assisted in his duties by Sir Arthur Blackburn and Mr. W. D. Allen.

Other members of the staff in- clude Wing-Commander Warbur ton, Major Kenneth Millar and Captain Pardoe, of the Military Attache's Office, and also four cipher officers.

Mr. Hall Patch, who arrived in 000000000000000066. Chungking after a visit to Japan, North China and the United States, is expected to leave 10- morrow en, route to London. Reuter.

DEATH OF FAMOUS CANCER SURGEON

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THREE: ROBBERIES OF JUNKS

Three junk robberies occurred

Engineers are examining the; A slightly stronger shock, it is rallway tunnels, In many of stated, would have wrecked the The death has occurred in which bad cracks have appear-whole capital, and Rumanlan seis-London of Charles William ed, dislocating the whole of themologists are expecting a further Manil! Moullin, at the

of in British waters during the week. railway traffic system.

shock.

89. The shock was also telt in Bul-

In all instances the junk people He was a distinguished sur- were robbed of their belongings garia, where there are some vic-

gcon whose work for the allevia-and two were wounded when the lims, and in the Marseilles region

tion of cancer had a world-wide robbers fired 'shots at them. They of unoccupied France.

reputation.-Reuter,

have been admitted to hospital.

Worst Since 1802.

Officials of Bucharest

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IF THIS SHOCK IS A STRONG ONE,

MAY MEAN THE TOTAL DES- TRUCTION OF THE BADLY SHAKEN CITY.

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Last night, rescue parties were. still frantically working on the Obser-Carlton Building, which vatory say the quake was the destroyed in a few seconds, bury- worst since 1802. It cccurred ating hundreds of inmates. 3.45am.. and the total extent of loss of life and damage is

still not known.

No trains were able to enter or leave Bucharest throughout the day.

One of the largest buildings in Oil Area Casualties Bucharest-a new 16 storey block of flats in the centre of the city- It is reported that the shock at Danube.crashed in ruins, while other Ploesti, the oil centre, was pre- buildings badly damaged include ceded by a flash of lightning and the Royal Palace, Army. Head- that all telephones were imme- quarters and the U.S. Embassy. diately cut off. Many public build- Reports from other capitals sayings and houses were destroyed ai that some Rumanian towns are Ploetsi. half-destroyed.

At Galatz,

the on thirty people are known to have been killed and over 100 injured, while the oil plants at Ploetsi, the centre of Rumania's oil industry, have been. damaged.

From other areas, authentic reports, are still awaited, but it is to be feared that several towns in Rumania have suffer- ed just as badly as Bucharest. The Rumanian Radio which re-

At Glataz, the. Cathedral and

A municipal officer in the cen-St. Helen's Church were ruined. tre of the out-field reports that In the oil region of Buzau Ram- hundreds of buildings there neicul, a workmen's camp suffer- have been destroyed.

led severely. Although, as far as

An official Bucharest Broadcast can be gathered, the refineries and stored its service during yester-calls on all doctors, chemists and petrol dumps have not been dam- day immediately issued a broad-engineers to report at once for aged severely, the number of cast appeal to every architect to relict work,

casualties is stated to be report for service, as every house The quake was so bad that it high.-Reuter

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