Rome, Jan. 15.
The King of Italy, who has visited all the earthquakes which have oocurred in Italy in his time, declares that the recent one surpasses all, even that of Mes: only three per cent. of the population of Avezzone are alive while at Messina thirty percent. survived. The violence of this earth unprecedented.
Trade, therefore, after a temporary decline owing to the war, has reached the level of 1913 in almost all cases and in certain industries was much above normal,
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