The Kansu Earthquake Story in Pictures The Famine Relief Committee must have felt well pleased on Tuesday at the success which attended the lantern lecture at the Olympic Theatre on the great earthquake in Kansu in December of last year, for the seating accommodation was taxed well nigh to its limits. Apart from the interes attaching to it through the earthquake, the lecture was attractive one on & part of China with which people ate not too familiar, some excellent scenic views being' shown. To those who associate Kansu mainly with the hordes of braves who swarmed out of there during the Boxer rebellion and hemmed in the Legations at Peking, it must have been a revelation ty bear Mr. J. W. Hall speak of the province as one of the most advanced in China, with fine roads and many other modern improvements effected by no less a person than the Meader of those same braves.
Mr. Hall went into much detail regarding the earthquake, which involved an area 300 miles by 100 miles and caused the loss of at least 150,000 lives. He described the soil as mainly loess. a curious fertile variety, easily moulded into any form, but of a shifting and crumb!- ing nature and apparently the landslides following the earthquake did more damage than the earth. quake itself. The inhabitants are mainly cliff and cave dwellers, so it can easily be understood how it was that whole towns and villages were swept out of existence, During an interval, those ever resourceful merry men. the Silas brothers, amused the audience and Messrs. 8. J. Decks and G. M. James sang in capital style.
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