1930-09-11 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930.

Seventy-five per cent of the buildings in Melfi, Italy, crackled and crumbled like those shown in this photo, were left uninhabitable by the recent earthquakes. Two hundred persons were buried in the ruins of this hill town of 12,000 population and streats throughout the community were littered with wreckage. Houses were split in half in many instances, with beds, tables and chairs suspended in the air.

Homeless, bereaved and stricken by the swift disaster which overtook them, refugees from the earthquake zone are pictured above as they gathered in groups on the outskirts of Melf. Italy,

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Standing amid the jumbled ruins of their homes, survivors of the earthquake which rooked Melfi, Italy, here are shown as they awaited the arrival of food and supplies from nearby relief centres. Many children were reported to be suffering from lack of nourishment. Buildings in Melfi were literally torn in two by the fiarse tremors which left virtually the entire town uninhabitable.

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These two lumberjacka do most of their work at alti- tudos upwards of 100 feet. At the loft is Ed Serger, 120, fast up on a giant Douglas fir tree which be has just topped. To the right is a squirrel's-eye view of Phillip Grabinski, champion high climber, pausing for a re-t while descending a tall tree which he has just "limbed" in preparation for the high climbing and tree topping contests at the Long- view Rolleo.

Senator and Mrs. Resd Smoot, Utah's famous new- lyweds, are pictured here on their honeymoon. The san- stor and his bride, the former Mrs. Alice Taylor. Shoots, plan: a trip

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A graphic impression of tragedy is conveyed by this plo- ture of a lone mother, with a baby in her arms, leaving be- hind her the ruins of their home in earthquake-torn Mela, Italy. A few belongings that escaped "destruction have been packed on the back of a mule for the long.trek out of the devastated area.

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