Twenty Killed in Hsuchow When Houses Collapse Tremors shook the earth in north: fen China on Aug. 1, and were corded on the instruments in Sie cawd Observatory.
Reports: were yecelve from various cities on August 2 that the inhabitants, put in a ance by the sudden quaking of the earth, fled from their houses into the open; in only one case, however, di la any joss of life or of property occur According to Father Ghersi, of Siccawei, the "actual earthquakes, which were felt in the early morn: Ing and again in the evening, were at their worst In south-east Shan: tung, at a point $40 kilometres north-north-west of Shanghai, Some local residents believe that they felt slight tremors in Shanghai, although at the time they ascribed it to. nothing more alarming than a passing motor lorry.
The quakes were of short duration, Shortly before 9 am. on August 2," Nanking experienced the first tremor, a weak one and a brief one.
Tu the evening, a few minutes after 630 o'clock, 9 violent tremor was felt, which lasted for over a minute, Kaifeng, provincial capital of Honan, and Pengpu, a large city: n Northern Anhwei, also reported th early morning quakes.
'Maifeng' tremor is said to have lasted for minute' and Pengpu's for a whole three minutes.
In the evening, tremors were also felt at Tientsin, but only of a few seconds duration.
Twenty Kitled at Isuchow Hsuchow, Aug. 2 Over 20 persons were' killed or jured by the collapse of more than 50 dilapidated houses as a result of a series of four earth tremors yesterday.
Considered by the local populace 05 the most serious earthquake this city ever had in the last 50 years, {wo of the four tremors occurred at 439 'o'clock in the morning and the other two at 6:40 o'clock in the afternoon.
The @rst two tremors lasted for about two and half minutes, while the last two in the afternoon were of longer duration, about five minutes—Central. News.
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