Inland Quakes

The Times, London, printed the report by J. H. Edgar, inland missionary, of a severe earthquake at Hor Drangu on the China-Tibetan frontier.

Mr. Edgar said: " Beyond Dawo we began to get startling confirmation of the havoc wrought by a mighty force from the bowels of the earth. At one village we found that every house had been leveled to the earth and quite half of the inhabitants killed.

" The zone of maximum intensity was not reached until the next morning. There was found nothing standing for a distance of about 100 li (40 miles). Well built Tibetan houses were leveled to the ground and their timbers reduced to gigantic heaps of matchwood. Great rents extended along the plain for miles. Mounds and hill tops were smashed and powdered and sections of hills thrown out.

" The loss of life in this zone was enormous and at one place we counted about a score of bodies blocking the river. Catholic mission station was demolished and the French priest, Alric, and 18 scholars and 30 members killed.

" There is no doubt that we were face to face with the results of an earthquake of maximum intensity which demolished every building and killed perhaps 50% of the people."