Show SHOCK RUIN THROUGH MEDITERRANEAN Towns on Island of Rhodes Seriously D a m ma g e d On Person Killed BUILDINGS CRUMBLE Disturbance Is Believed Due to Activity of V Volcano Vol- Vol 01 cano on op Santori Isle ROME June 28 The AP-The ih- ih vU- vU lage of was wiped out and several other towns on the island or of Rhodes were seriously damaged in Saturdays Saturday's earthquake w was felt throughout the Mediterranean Mel Med basIn between n AsIa Minor MI- MI nor nor southern Italy and north Africa So far as Is Is' known only one person was killed Several were Injured Greater loss of life lite was by the flight of the p a lc as soon as the first Intimation ot of the approach ach ot or of the dreaded earth tremor was f It The The quake lasted o only Jy from 6 60 seconds to two minutes in various places and repeated itself three times Even Even the upper st stories rles of tIlt the houses were cleared ot of th their lr InhabItants however b before fore the walls began to crumble TOWNS DEST DESTROYED OYED The The- severest damage was wrought on n the Island pt pt Rhodes where several thousand houses were destroyed The towns on the Island most seriously affected were Rhodes o. o Monolith Mono Mono- lith and Arnita Not a sIngle Important building was left standing t while structures tumbled down at Rhodes RhodeL SerIous damage also was caused on the Islands Islands' of Lr os and Castelrosso The shock w was s felt at Tripoli and throughout Calabria A and SicilY Panic w was s prevalent In th southern p part r of Cai Calabria boia and in or lq a.- a. cIly A large part or th IC uJ tion In these places lived through I the de quake In 1908 Ih ib tha he vicInIty of the volcanic island Island of Seismographic instruments at atRom Rome Rom reported the epIcenter of the quake a dIstance of 1200 kIlometers Tie d delicate Instrument a recorded an en enormous movement of 18 0 18 Inches BATAVIA Java June 28 AThe AP- AP The The of cen central Sumatra were ere thrown Into a lr panic this morn Ing by a heavy eart q a k No casualties have been d. The o residence at J adang and the homes homes' of many J w were re badly damaged S June Jun 28 Two AP earthquake shocks lasting 20 seconds sec eec each were we're were recorded this this' r morning They are are said to h have he e eb b been en the most s ere In Singapore for tor years LONDON June 28 AP Meager AP-Meager Meager details were today regarding re- re garding casualties in a a. a severe earthqUake or a serIes of quakes quakes' h spook shook the Mediterranean coun ies' ies Saturday evening In vIew of reports or of the collapse ol of thousands thousands' of buildings it would selm seem probable that casualties were numerous Ad Advices vIces from are ar that more than 2000 ho houses ses on the Island ot Rhodes In the Aegean sea seA were razed and that tho ot Ark Ark- and Monolith MonoUth suffered severely T Te e center of the disturbance was In or near the Or Crete shocks are thought possIbly to have been due to to the sudden ac ac- ac Continued on page 5 5 SHOCK WREAKS RU RUIN N THROUGH MEDITERRANEAN S Continued from page 1 ti ot a 0 no on the Greek island of The arche at log log- lcd leat museum at C Crete rele con con- taming many antiquities was wrecked NORTH EGYPT I HAKEN At Athens I ap ap- app p Were broken y by the checks Tie Tle quake shook northern Egypt severely se causing great alarm at Alexandria Port Said Cairo and Some are that many b were thrown down dawn while others had their walls waIls Few Ues have be n reported from th these se places There Were He several In the gyp tiun Countryside including Jerusalem was shaken but no casualties have ben been rC old d. d According to late reports from Rome 2000 houses col- col laps lapsed d In tour Villages Ulas s ot of the provInce proy- proy Ince of at Nothing was bid eaid In the dispatch about s. s Malta Malt seems to h have escaped with harmless shocks which however caused great alarm among the in- in b MUS MUSEUM UM DAMAGED In th the mUseum bf Candia an ancient city capital of the Island of Crete Cr t the antiquities damaged damage 1 Included tr asur s excavated b by Sir Arthur Arthul EVans tit itt ancient ot of Greece and celebrated In legends o ot Zeus Miros s and nd others other SortIe of the Athens newspapers the materIal damage on the theIs island Is md of Ci- Ci Crete Cite te was slight There Th re were no fat but a fe v fe per per- were re slightly Injured WASHINGTON June 28 AP- AP Five kes within 48 hOurs have ave ave- been registered on on the le sels sets sets- li at Georgetown university Director Tondorf announced today today to- to day that two Shocks ere r record cOrd dd d during last night The first began began be- be gan itt t 1043 p. p m. m with the maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum occurring o from 1146 to 1153 This merged d Into a s second c nd q h lith h beg begab n at a. a mu m. lasting three full hoUrs ho rs with Its maximum rf reached d from to o lock Father Tondorf estimated the center center cen- cen ter of the disturbances at from to miles from Washington |