Peking, May 27.
The views of the earthquake devastated region in Kansu, brought back by Messrs. Hall and Hayes, investigators for -the United International Famine Relief Committee, have aroused so much interest that the investigators have been requested to screen the photographs: for public presentation. This presentation will be. given on Jume 1, at the Peking Pavilion. The proceeds will be given to Kansu Earthquake Relief.
Much interest centres in the earthquake, inasmuch as the shock was felt in Peking, but the news of the disaster in Kansu, where, 150,000 people were buried in landslides or killed by falling buildings, did not come out to the world for a number of days.- Owing to the loose nature of the soil, the quake constitutes one of the most unique seismic disturbances in history. Relief is being given by way of excavation to relieve the dammed-up streams, which threaten immense washouts and further destruction.
The general type of the destruction is well shown in the views, 28 well as such remarkable phenomena as the carrying of sections of roa and homesteads for long distances on the tops of slides.
The presentation is being given under the auspices of Mr. Charles fT. Crane, American Minister, General Ma Fu-hsiang, Mohammedan leader of Kansu, and the United International Relief Committee—Reuter.
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