Ankara, Dec, 30.
After unceasing efforts by the Government, communications were established' with the areas devasted by the recent earthquakes, from all parts of which come urgent pleas for help. Survivors are exposed to bitter cold and unprecedented blizzards.
The casualty toll given in latest estimates as 30000, is expected to mount, as all hope has been abandoned of rescuing any people trapped under ruins, which are still blazing throughout the zone. An area of 60,000 square miles is said to have taken the full force of the shocks, and it now resembles one vast, open-air hospital and cemetery.
Damaged railway tracks are delaying many relief trains, while shattered bridges and snapped telephone wires, combined with snowstorms and ice-bound roads, are holding up casualty lists.
The country's sympathy for the survivors and its grief for the dead are finding practical expression in hosts of volunteers for rescue work and a steady flow of relief subscriptions.
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