| Show BODIES OF RECOVERED IN DEBRIS LEFT BY BIG QUAKE QUE Terrible Spectacle Pre Pre- Presented By Destruction In Holy Land HELP IS NEEDED Greatest Disaster There Since 1837 Relics Damaged JERUSALEM July 13 Jewish Jewish Telegraphic Agency Four Four hundred bodies of victims of the earthquake In Palestine Monday afternoon have been recovered from the debris In cities and villages A list of casualties compiled by bythe bythe bythe the authorities places the number of Injured at No casualties were reported among the Jewish population In the country districts Thousands of families all allover allover allover over the country spent last night In Inthe inthe the open air fearing a repetition of the earthquake Not a house In Jerusalem or Hebron is ls without some damage CITY OF DEAD JERUSALEM July 13 Dy By By The Associated Press ancient Samaritan center 30 miles north of Jerusalem and other towns in the Holy Land appeared like the city of the dead say reports which reached Jerusalem today of the disastrous earthquake that rocked the region Monday afternoon Latest official estimates of the cas cas- casualties casualties place the dead in Palestine at atmore atmore atmore more than ISO and In trans trans-Jordania at The total injured Is given gisen as asmore asmore asmore more than 00 Unofficial figures are much higher some ome estimates touching 1000 Up to the present no Amer Amer- Americans AmerIcans leans or Europeans have been re reported re- re reported reported ported among the victims AWFUL SPECTACLE Details from many of the affected places were still being awaited today but the the- story of the fate of says saS It presents an awful spectacle of destruction Scarcely a house In hi the theold theold theold old part of town escaped Some col cot collapsed collapsed lapsed entirely while others seem eem to tobe tobe tobe be held together by a miracle High buildings above narrow streets collapsed like JIk cards burying not only the inmates but persons in inthe Inthe Inthe the markets below REAL CATASTROPHE LONDON July 13 By By The Asso Asso- Associated Associated elated Press Press While much has yet yetto yetto et etto to be learned about the earthquake in Palestine and trans trans-Jordania it Is ls clear that the catastrophe exceeds any disaster in Palestine since the earthquake of 1837 when per per- persons persons perSons sons perished Late reports from Jerusalem do not support the big estimate of more than 1000 dead cited in Cairo dispatches on the authority of British military air men and there Is no means at present of checking such discrepancies discrepancies andes as the official estimate of eight dead lead at Amman and the report of the he Cairo correspondent of the Dally Daily Express that persons were killed there here PEOPLE NEED EID HELP The authorities are reported to be doing their utmost to relieve the dis- dis tress ress but apparently are arc hampered by lack of modern modem communications and insufficient stores tores upon which to to draw to help the stricken people It Its ItIs Itis Is s learned that British air force head head- headquarters headquarters headquarters quarters at Cairo has been ordered to rush medical supplies to the dev dev- devastated devastated areas Antiquities authorities says aYs the Cairo correspondent of the Dally Daily Ex Ex- Excess Express Ex- Ex Express press cess are worried over the fate late of many of Egypt's celebrated monuments monuments ments should there be further shocks During the last two years there have been een a number of quakes of varying Intensity and there have been two in Inthe inthe the he last 10 days das Each time the cen cen- center center center ter of the shocks grows nearer The center of yesterdays yesterday's quake ac according ac- ac according according cording to estimates of the authorities was less than miles distant from Cairo alro and they received reports that the he temple at Karnak was cracked In n places They say that had the center of the shock been miles mUes away Instead of irreparable dam dam- damage damage damage age probably would have been done |
