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Show tnct Tho dead have been found i with fingers cut off to remove rings ; c end with ears torn to remove ine car . pendants. The other night a group of peasants, who wanted to enter tno : city lor evil motives of theft, fired up- 1 on three carbineers, wounding ouo seriously. I "Every day since the state of slese, I i which I intend to maintain vigorously, I ' the military tribunals have infllcttd i the gravest penalties on hundreds o! persons suspected of theft. All tho severity of a military regime will lu invoked against those in whose possession pos-session are found objects of value or money of which they can give no satisfactory sat-isfactory account. The city will do emptied as much as possible of inhai-tlants, inhai-tlants, especially the vagabonds.Above all, it is necessary to obviate the dancer dan-cer of epidemic. "The sixty thousand corpses which are now putrlfylng under the debris aio a menace to public health. The greatest possible number of bodies will be excavated and burled. To escape es-cape the exhalation when excavation Is impossible, tho ruins will be flooded ' with torrents of quick-lime and did- intectants." AWFUL TALES OF LOOTING TOLD IU ROME ' I HUNDREDS OF MALEFACTORS POUR INTO THE REGION. Dead of Messina Are Found With Fingers Fin-gers Cut Off to Remove Rlnga and E&'B Mutlled. Rome. Jan. 9. The Corrierre Italia publishes an Interview today with General Gen-eral Mazza, dealing especially with the looting in the earthquake zone. Tho general is quoted as follows: "What especially preoccupies mo is tho succession of thefts since thh f.rst dav of the disaster. Hundred ol native and foreign rialef actors htvc poured into the devastated dla- |