Alabati Island, about seventy south-east of Manila, off the Pacific coast of Luzon, is still being rocked by severe earthquakes, according to advices from the provincial authorities, It is stated that streams, normally ary at this time of the year are filled with boiling muddy water, while deep cracks have appeared in the earth.
The population is in a panic, believing that the island, which measures fifteen by five miles, is crumbling back into the sea.
It_ is understood that weather bureau experts are being sent to investigate.
Office rents in Manila have soared by as much as fifty per cent. in some cases because of the evacuation of Heacock's seven-storey building in Main Street, which was dariaged and cracked by the tremors last Saturday.
Tenants of the building, numbering more than sixty, are seeking new places.—Reuter.
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