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Show MANY STILL ALIVE IH PILESOF RUINS THE WORK OF RESCUE GOES BRAVELY ON IN EARTHQUAKE STRICKEN ITALY. Hundreds Given Up for Dead are Being Be-ing Rescued Alive, While It Is Believed Hundreds Fled In Panic Following Shock. Rome. Official and semi-official reports re-ports to Premier Salandra from twenty-four towns nnd villages ln tho 300-mile 300-mile belt stricken by the earthquake of January 13 and the subsequent tremors, which havo wrought no lit-tlo lit-tlo additional havoc, report approximately approxi-mately 27,800 dead. ' Premier Salandra counsels consor-vatism, consor-vatism, declaring this number llkoly will bo reduced considerably, as hundreds hun-dreds of those burled nllvo and given up for dead are being rescued nnd tho semi-official estimates aro based on deductions computed from tho number found nllvo among tho total population. These figures, ho explains, ex-plains, aro subject to revision downward down-ward because hundreds of tho survivors sur-vivors fled from tho devastated zono ln tho first panic following the Initial shock. Making all due allowances nnd taking tak-ing tho rellablo figures nt hand as a basis, It Is officially estimated that tho dead will not number moro than 20,000. Premier Salandra states that tills llguro oven may oxnggerato tho total loss of life, whllo King Victor Emmanuel, who has just returned fiom a visit to Avezzano and Sora, ox-pressed ox-pressed tho belief that tho casualties would be much loss than tho reports to Premier Salandra Indicated. Thirty thousand soldiers mobilized against tlio chauco of Italy entoring tho international coutllct are now engaged en-gaged as rescuors and ln relief work, and tho thousands of tona of equipment equip-ment and commissary stores assembled assem-bled for uso ln that contingency havo been applied to tho rellof of tho sufferers. |