Istanbul, Dec. 29.
While exact details are unlikely to be available for many days, the earthquake which occurred in Anatolia on Wednesday is undoubtedly the greatest natural disaster ever to have befallen the country. Twelve large provincial towns and over eighty villages were partly or comple: ely wrecked.
President Ineunu as well as Ministers of Interior and Health ar hastening to the devastated area, in which scenes of suffering and despair everywhere great relief parties.
Eighty per cent. of the population of Erzerum is said to have perished in the earthquake. The dead include five officers and eighteen cadets of the military school, which was entirely London, Dec, 29.
The Danish steamer Hanne (1080 tons) was sunk by a mine off the north-east of England yesterday.
An Admiralty announcement says that H.M. trawler Loch Doon is overdue and must be presumed to be lost. The crew numbered fifteen.
The full story of the sinking of the British steamer Deptford on December 12, available today, reveals that when torpedoed, she was within half a mile of the Norwegian coast. The ship sank in 90 seconds with the loss of 32 members of her crew of 37, and also two Norwegian pilots. Some survivors were picked up by the Norwegian motor-boat Farida, the captain of which states that he saw a submarine's conning tower break the surface between the Deptford and land.
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