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Show N In view of the urgent and Immediate neceBBitios of the case, has been exasperating. ex-asperating. The money was there Tor immediate relief and to prevent unnecessary un-necessary suffering; they have chosen chos-en to regard It as a snored trust tor the future as well as the present needs of the victims, and have acted as though they might bo called to account ac-count for any miserable 10,000 rrancs . which might possibly fall Into tho . wrong hands," !N THE EARTHQUAKE REGION. Tho special correspondent of The London Times, who has Just returned from Regglo, brings sad reports ot incompetency in-competency upon the part of Italian officials. Nobody appears to have been dishonest. . There Is no suspicion suspic-ion of graft. It is merely that in tho face of calamity the men In charge proved of small callbro, utterly unfit for thefr task. Says Tho Times man quoting through The Literary Digest: "Two months have now gone by, a period I0119; enough to have relieved all Immediate distress and to have made a food start in the work o! reparation; re-paration; and still one can only stato with dismay how llttlo has actually 'beenjfffected In comparison with what ; roiKht have been done. .Every day hrjga tales of distress from villages Wand which have not even yet been sufficiently helped, appeals from com- mittees who can not continue their much-needed work of mercy for want of funds, complaints from refugees un-houseu un-houseu still in Messina and Regglo." Tho Englishman then proceeds to criticise the Italfcm national relief committoe, of whom he writes: "From the first this committee seem to have entirely rr'concelvcd tho part they wero asked to play. Their I names alone were sufficient guaranty that tho money at their disposal would be honestly spent in whatever seem-' d to them to be the wisest way of ' relief, and that there could be no possibility pos-sibility of a repetition of tho scandals which, unfortunately, attended form-, er distributions. "Nevertheless, they appear to have regarded themselves as objects of possible pos-sible suspicion, and have Bhown throughout an excess of caution which, |