Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 1 | Quakes Add to War Dangers in Bomb- Pitted Chinese City

Quakes Add to War Dangers In Bomb-Pitted Chinese City Soldiers Get 'Holiday' to Combat Flood Waters; Casualties Run High By EARL LEAF Copyright, 1937, by I'nited Press 1 TEH CHOW, Shantung Province, China, Aug. 18 (Delayed) (UP) .-I reached this bomb-pitted city in northern Shantung today just In time to be caught in the last of a series of earthquakes which has added to the horror of the Chinese-Japanese war in this sector. I : Hundreds of people have been ail red by th earth tremors, which were followed by floods in the valley val-ley of the Yellow river. . I reached Chines military headquarters head-quarters after a hasardous Journey from Taingtao, chief seaport of this province, to find that General Han Fa-Chu had diverted many of his troops from war aganst the Japanese Jap-anese to a war against the elements. ele-ments. Th earthquakes had been con-tinatng con-tinatng for a week. Tbe whole district between Tsi-Ban-Fu, th provincial capital, and Tehchow la devastated. I walked much of the way through a stricken country. Houses had toppled and fields were ruined by the quakes. It was impossible to obtain any estimate of the casualties. Hundreds of people had fled, however, before the earthquakes and floods came because of the sporadic bombings by Japanese airplanes from Tientsin. Despite the floods and earthquakes, earth-quakes, the construction of trenches and antitank defenses is continuing her.