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Show HOMES ARE NOT READY. Messina Refugees Not Permitted to Return to City. lesslna. General Mazza has Issued Is-sued an official statement saying: "It is absolutely impossible to grant permission to the refugees to -return to their homes f the purpose of excavating ex-cavating their houses, as it would be impossible to lodge them. "Indeed, 500 refugees on board a steamer in the harbor have not been allowed to land for the same reason. The construction of buildings to house 40,000 persons will be carried out as rapidly as possible." Professor Raffaelo Villar, the noted Poland Garibaldian soldier, who was taken from the ruins by Russian sailors, sail-ors, dangerously wounded, shortly after the earthquake, died Sunday, aboard the cruiser Admiral Makaroff. He was born at Messina in 1831. The continuation of the shocks keeps the people in a state of alarm. |