The Quetta Earthquake - A Mighty Divine Sign — Page iii
Take a city of 80,000 and consider it suddenly depr'ived of all its afnenities, no go'Verl1me11t, no police, no traffic facilities, no food, 110 'It'ater, no electric current, no shops, 110 bazar, and, in addition, the i1nminent terror of no law. This 'U'as Quetta at three 11tintttes past three o'clock 01~ the morning of Friday, May 31. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The tragedy of Quetfa's desolation is cotnplete. . . . . . . . . The earthquake has done its u:orst to obliterate e't'ery t-race of habitation,. [The Civil & Military Gazette]. Quetta's death-roll is approxinlately jive times that of Bihar i1~ an area 011e-twel/th oj the size and almost all the inhabi- tants have been rendered homeless and destitute. . . . . . . . . Quetta is a city of death and despair. . . . . . . . . Hours of intensiroe b0l1tbatd1nent could not have as cotnpletely wiped out a tou'n as a few seconds' shal~ing of the eatth's crust. [The Statesman].