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Show LIVING VICTIMS OF EARTHpiiF I STILL BEING POUND IN RUINS I Rescue Work Proceeds Slowly and Under Great Difficulties H Thousands of Soldiers, Civilians and Members of Italian Nobility Systematizing Relief Work and Supplying IB Food and Shelter in Stricken Towns and Vil- WU lages Pope Sends Aid to All Dioceses. BH Rome, Jan. 18 Rescue work throughout the wilderness created by the earthquake last Wednesday continues con-tinues slowly and under great difficulties. difficul-ties. Each excavation serves to verify veri-fy earlier reports of the probable casualties, cas-ualties, though here and there, despite de-spite the fact that five days have elapsed since the catastrophe, living victims are being released from their prisons of crumbling plaster and fallen fall-en timbers Thousands of soldiers and Chilians, Including many members of the nobility, no-bility, gradually are systematizing th relief work and are getting food and shelter supplies over the obstructed roads to the stricken towns and villages. vil-lages. The relief work now however, howev-er, overshadows the rescue efforts. Pope Sends Aid. The pope, according to the Osser-vatore Osser-vatore Romano has sent aid to all the bishops of the dioceses in the earthquake earth-quake zone. A fund of 20,000,000 lire ($4,000,000) has been received by the pontiff thus far About 7500 refugees. ref-ugees. 2000 of them injured, have reached Rome to date. One estimate of the property loss says It will exceed 300.000,000 lire (160,000,000). No official figures are as yet available People Fear More Shocks. In dozens of villages citizens who escaped With their lives are still in poignant fear that new shocks will tumble their buildlnns about their heads and are camping out to avoid further danger. Gradually , however, the seismis disturbances are lessening and none has been reported since yesterday. yes-terday. The greatest care is being exercised to aert disease epidmlc threatened by interrupted water sup-piles sup-piles and the abnormal manner m which the people are now living. Physicians Phy-sicians are putting health measures ! into effect. |