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Show I1 Ti kti 3 mmm i ifiibassador Griscom Presents Feasible Plan for Meeting Great Emergency, Problem of Relief Vast, Ship Should Be Chartered at Marseilles by Telegraph and Loaded With Food, Blankets, Medicines and Useful Materials, Transport Ships Needed for Use Under Direction of Red Cross. any plans. There are many Americana in Rome anxious to assist in relief measures. "GRISCOM." The United States Is far ahead of other nations in the relief work. To day Ambassador Griscom succeeded iu finding an Austrian Lloyd steamer of 8,000 tons, capable of carrying 1,200 passengers. He has chartered the steamer for two weeks and it is bo-jng bo-jng loaded with medical supplies and provisions. This will cost $50.0'H). It is expected that the 6t earner wll! rail from Civta Vccchl, bout fifty miles from Rome, on Thursdaj. It will be placed under the orders of tho Italian government. In addition to supplies hte American Ameri-can relief vessel will embark six doctors doc-tors and twenty male and female nurses, three of the latter bsing American Amer-ican girls from New York who volunteered volun-teered their services. Washington. Jan. 3. To assist the American people In their efforts to extend ex-tend relief to the stricken Italian earthquake earth-quake sufferers, Secretary Root made public a cablegram received today from Ambassador Grl6Com, presenting the first feasible plan of meeting the grea". emergency. There is no time to'spare In awaiting await-ing the arrival of battleships now in Suez canal, or naval supply ships crossing the Atlantic. The need fu-help fu-help is immediate and the way help can be rendered Is told In the cablegram cable-gram dated at Rome, which follows: "January 2 I have today drawn on vou for $70,000 and paid Its equivalent to the Italian Red Cross in two sums. $50,000 from American Red Cross and $20,000 from Boston Herald. "I have today seen the president of the Canadian Red Cross, who desire3 me to inform the American Red Cross as follows: "Problem of relief ery vast. Includes In-cludes feeding and clothing of the destitute des-titute on scene Immediately and quickly, quick-ly, removing nearly the whole of the suffering population from stricken districts dis-tricts to other parts of Italy. Transportation Trans-portation involves special difficulties. Much money Is needed, but if anthorl ties wish to offer practical aid immediately, imme-diately, a ship could be chartered by telegraph at Marseilles or Genoa and loaded with blankets, clothinc. linen, preserved meats, condensed milk, medicines med-icines and similar useful materials. One or more ships under direction of the Italian Red Cross would be useful as transports and at the same time could deposti stores where neded along the coast. The Italian Red Cross has not yet clearly worked out how all tho difficulties of relief are to be solved Supplies are now needed In Sicily and Calabria, but In about two weeks, when the destitute have been removed would bo needed In Naples, Rome, Florence and other cities where the sufferers are being distributed. "I will be personally glad to co-oper-I ate with our Red Cross to carry out |