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Show SITUATION IN ITALY DESPERATE Rome, Jan. 19, 9:30 p m. Thomas Nelson Page, the American ambassador, ambassa-dor, who has visited the enrthquake district, was asked tonight for an impression im-pression of his visit. In reply he , said he was struck by the desperate condition everywhere and the appalling appal-ling magnitude of the destruction, covering cov-ering as it did a whole territory once full of flourishing towns and villages. While practically the entire population, popula-tion, he said, is in the open air, with only a few people in temporary huts, he considers that the relief organization organiza-tion is very efficient as soldiers have reached every' devastated place. The first need now. the ambassador declared, is not only dally food, but an assurance of regular supplies and shelter throughout the district, as the houses, even when not destroyer, are so shaken that the people have left them in terror. With all this promptly forthcoming. Mr. Page said, it will then be necessary neces-sary through reorganization of labor, to set the wheels of life moving again Just now the people are paralyzed, he said, even In their mental faeu'-ties, faeu'-ties, from their terrible experience oo |