Show 4 I TUSAN TOUSAND DOLLARS WORT oil Of SUPPLIES SENT TO iTALY President Will Ask Congress for Additional Aid Use of Entire Intire Battleship Flee Offered r Money Pouring in to Offices of National Red Cross New York Telegraphs Eighty Thousand Large Sums From Other Cities V x 1 V No Detail Overlooked by Citizens and Officials V V Washington Jan 2 President Roosevelt tonight announced that he helias has lias sent two supply ships with worth of or supplies to Italy that lint he hev v wIll Ill ask congress for additional aid ailt and that ho has offered the Use UBe ot ol the tue battleship fleet to Italy The jho announcement is made malle in a n tel telegram telegram gram made public at the tho white house which the lie president sent to Patrick I 1 F McGowan chairman of oC the lie Italian general relief committee New York The File telegram n follows I earnestly wish success to the tho general relief com corn committee In lbs Ita it great mass meeting at Malison Madison Square Garden It Is la or of course not possible for or Ol me to attend in person I am doing dolnE everything L at can be lone done to get aid to the tho suf sufferers su an and antI on account of or tIle the extreme urgency of the tho case caso have han sent two supply ships ship with three thousand dollars dollare worth of food and provisions without wi hout waiting for the tue of congress being conti confident dent that lint congress will wIil approve my action I shall shan also ask congress tor ot additional aid and throughout the thO coming week will keep in the closest touch with congress and through the tIle state Mole department with Italy so that everything possible to bo be done by the tho United States Stales may nay be bc done lone Furthermore J I have hae cabled inc Italian HaHnn Ital Ian government proffering th thIH IH of any or all of or the battle fleet If such auth can he be of or use in this thus crisis Signed THEODORE ROOSEVELT President Roosevelt was tonight In preparing the lie message which will be 10 presented to 10 congress Monday Monda A large amount ull of data on precedent and mut on the aid that is be being beIng ing lug rushed from various quarters to 0 southern and the tho means of o get getting getting getting ting succor to the victims was prepared pro pre pared for tho the president and was con considered considered considered carefully by him hini Suffering Italy Hal continues to occupy the thoughts of most of the citizens and officials here Aroused to a full ull consciousness of or the lie appalling ler ter the Uio one aim is to get gel relief to the stricken people as speedily as pos pas possible possible sible Ible Money is pouring Into the tile of or offices flees of o tho the National Red Cross and andis andis andis is being heing telegraphed abroad as fast as received The Tho New York Red Hed Crass Closs ios has telegraphed to the National RedCross Hed has been telegraphed from San Francisco Chi Chicago Chica cage cago ca 1 telegraphed has haslon lon Leon sent sont the tho Italian Red Cross from the th bay states has ms been ca en cabled jed bled by the National Red Reel Cross to Ic 1 the tho th Italian society More than was wa subscribed locally today Tho The suggestion that Ernest Ernet P Bios BieR nell nen national director of the Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross be sent sont to Italy lUll to cooperate with the Italian Red Cross Cros has been I abandoned as unnecessary and Mr tr bicknell has hs been Instructed to con continue continuo lane lila his trIp trill to San Francisco Mayor Des Planches the tho Italian am ambassador ambassador adOl this afternoon transmitted to Rome 2500 This Tills included his hl personal contribution that of or mem members bers bors of the embassy staff starr and Indi Individuals vI in Washington who took tool Money to the lie embassy with the tho re request request quest that it bo be sent to the tho stricken region |