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Show EARTHQUAKE IN NORTH AFRICA Several Small Villages Are Wiped Out and Many of Residents Killed or Injured. Terrific Tempest, Accompanied by Torrential Rains, Rages for Hours in Northern Morocco, Following Follow-ing Earthquake Shocks. Ceuta, Morocco. Ai terrific tempest, tem-pest, accompanied by a torrential downpour of rain, raged for five hours Thursday night over northern Morocco, following several earthquake earth-quake shocks. There were no casualties casual-ties in Ceuta, but reports brought in by native runners from the Phmara territory declare that several small villages have been overwhelmed and many persons killed or injured. Several American colliers and supply ships are anchored in Negro bay, between Ceuta and Tetuan, awaiting the arrival of the American battleships. No damage to these vessels ves-sels has been reported. It is impossible impos-sible to ascertain whether the landslides land-slides to the south are due to earthquakes earth-quakes or to inundation. The lower portion of the town of Ceuta was inundated. in-undated. Ceuta and Tetuan are on the Moroccan Mo-roccan coast directly south of Gibraltar. Gib-raltar. They are about twenty miles apart, one to the north and the other south of Negro bay, where the American Ameri-can battlesips now in the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean are to rendezvous prior to sailing to Hampton Roads on the last lap of their round-the-world cruise. |