The Archive · 1940

Balkan States Send

All the Balkan countries are profoundly. touched by the catastrophe.

'The Rumanian Government sent £10,000 worth of building materials to replace destroyed buildings, while the Bulgarian' Government' sent

material £5000 scarth of goods and building The King of Greece has cabled a The Greek Red Cross Society has cabled an offer to send a fully equip ped unit, while the Greek Govern ment hag instructed its Ambassador in Turkey to pay 10,000 Turkish pounds as the first instalment towards the relief fund, From Cairo it is reported that Major-General Wilson, the Commander-in-Chief of the British troops Eepyt, who is ce-operating with Prince Mohammed All, President of the Committes for Turkish Earthquake Relief, has dispatched twenty large army tents to. Anatolia, and contributed £100 for the relief fund fon behalf of British troops.

warning that shocks may recur in the mext ten days and possibly 8 longer period, has been given by the Director of' the Istanbul Observatory. The violence of the earthquake, he said, showed that the geological phenomenon was sixteen miles deep, which might take a long time to settle into place—Reuter,

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