Treviso, July 25.
To the troubles in southern Italy 'a3 the result of the earthquake. stricken area which adds to the resemblance of a war-zone. It la stated that the King who is still touring the district was neatly over. come.
It will probably take all next week before it will be possible to ascer~ tain the actual death roll and com-
Wednesday has been add 'a|pute the material damage done by violent cyclone in northern Ttal.|the disaster which laid waste the havoc from Suseganna to Monte-most smiling and most productive Belluna, in Venetia, region of Italy. Meanwhile the "Troops have been mobilized to! terrified Neapolitans are keeping odsist in the work of relieving thi anxious eyes on Mount Vesuvius, distress caused. [which is glowing threateninzly and] Twenty-seven people were killed whose companion, the volcano Pozarid hundreds injured by the cyclone. zola, is already in eruption—Tvans-'A' number of buildings were wreck-[Ocean Kuo Min.
Villages in the neighbourhood suitored very severely and relief Death Roll 5,000 work is most difficult 0 interry} of to. the Rome, July 27. The authorities deny the rumours Reuter. circulating in Italy as well as abroad Villanova Partially Demolished to the effect that the death-roll of the earthquake disaster in Southern Villanova, July 25.
Italy had passed the 10,000 mark. Two hundred and fifty bodies have However, it is now generally ad-already been taken from the ruin: mitted that the umber of the of Villanova and there are over 500) victims is certainly not far short of people injured.
5,000. Some isolated villages have gearing te course of a 250 mi not yet been reached by the rescue through the devastated area, 's correspondent saw village parties—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min. after village wholly or partially de-Rome, July 27. steeved, but the worst spectacle wa: 3|. The Finance Minister, Signor Nearly every hous® hac Musconi, has issued orders suspend.
polished. Shops, the palace ing the collection of taxes in the of the Marquis de Villanova and the [towns most stricken by the earth-Church were all in ruins. quake in the province of Potenza, The survivors axe camping in th and has asked the authorities of fields and are being supplied wit h Province of Avellino what alleviation rations. Soldiers are guarding th ein taxes is desirable there. town and are allo 1 none to enter.
'The Minister of Public Works. in 'They. are similarly guarding oth r|his latest report regarding relief ruined towns in the region such measures, says that four days afte: 'Agullona, Lacedonta and Aviano' the catastrophe relief was being supplied to all those needing it. He adds Further Shocks that the rebuilding of demolished houses will begin as soon as yi Rome, July 25. sible, "including an entire new Fresh but not very violent shock: of Avellino—Reuter. combined with subterranean thunder rocked the earthquake area Offers of Relief Declined terrorizing the 60,000 homeless ton, July 24, people who, in addition to everything else,' are suffering terribly Aid by the American Rel Cross from the heat-wave as the therwas offered to. the—enrthquake mometer'is hovering around forty sufferers in Italy through the Red degrees centigrade and furthermore Cross headquarters here tovlay. ary, partly starving since the avail-At the Italian Embassy, however, able supplies exhausted and the was stated that the Government from the north fof Ttaly believes that purely Italian the cyclone disaster relief will be sufficient, delayed by which ws worse than at first 'The precedent of re Janancse Medical supplies are al earthquake of 1923, when' aid wus yunning low and if anything, chaos sent by the American Red Cross oams to be growing worse with the and other organizations of the United States, was recalled, but it already appalling death-roll lengthening hourly as the work of clearing was pointed out that the' Ttalian disaster is smaller in magnitude, the ruins progresses. It is_noteworthy that after the first rush of [while there is a greater aunt of graphic details on the scenes of fJundamaged country to call upon Horror in the devastated region, the newspapers now observe a good deal Embassy, it is bel that of reticence and the impression is American Red Cress will romals, growing that the government is ready to dispatch aid at any time' striving to minimize the di ster if the decision is reconsidered. Pre-'Trans-Ocean Kuo Min, found gratitude for the attitude Rome, July 25. the Americans was of the Embassy—United Press.
far as can be ascertained at present, twenty-five villages have been destroyed or badly damaged, vf
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