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Show UNITED STATES AIDING IN REBUILDING OF MESSINA Messina,March 1. The work of construction con-struction of wooden houses with material mater-ial sent out from the United StateB, or purchased with American money to shelter the earthquake survivors, Is progressing favorably under the direction di-rection of Lieut. Commander Reginald R. Belknap, the American naval attache at-tache at Berlin and Rome. The lack of carts and horses has made the transportation of lumber from the dock to the point of erection both slow and expensive; it costs. $4,000 to deliver enough lumber to build 600 houses. It has been decided to build 1,000 houses at Messina, 1,000 at Reggio and 100 at the settlement called Rcgtna Elena, the village three miles from here being constructed under the personal per-sonal direction of Queen Helena. |