THE ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9339, 7 January 1909, Page 5

THE ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE.

ORGANISATION OF HOSPITALS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Rome, January 6.

Pour days elapsed before the Exmonth was able to go to Gallico, a town of 5000 inhabitants, five miles north of Reggio, to establish a hospital with 250 beds and nurses. This is a veritable godsend, because it is the only place of relief in the vicinity for the wounded from Catena, where out of 3500 people two thousand were killed. The wounded were conveyed to Gallico on stretchers. For several miles around Reggio shocks were experienced at intervals of 20 minutes. Dr. Duncan has now established a field hospital at Catena. Other British ships landed 50 men and doctors at Scylla and 50 men and 3 doctors at Oanueteilo, where the latter is the most sanitary camp of any. The Minerva’s men, amid recurring' shocks and heavy groans, worked heroically in the ruins. The British chaplain at Mr Huloatt’s house, Messina, discovered Mr Hulosns and a child' in bed. Both had crushed to death. The search is being continued as the wife and three other children are under the ruins. o RELIEF FUNDS. London, January 6. The Mansion House fund now totals £50,000. Melbourne, January 6. Mr Fisher has reconsidered the position he had taken up regarding the Commonwealth contributing to the Italian earthquake relief fund. Cabinet meets to-morrow and it is believed that £IO,OOO will he voted. Mr Wade, who is at present in Melbourne, intimated that in view of the Commonwealth’s first decision, it was send £SOOO from New South Wales. Received January 7, 9.20 a.m. Brisbane, January 7. The Queensland Government has cabled £IOOO to the Italian earthquake fond SOME UNEXPECTED RESCUES. Received January 7, 8.30 a.m. Rome, January 6. Temporary expedients are being employed to replace the lighthouses and signal stations in the Straits of Messina. Shocks still continue. Prince and Princess Oatellacoi, who were buried in the ruins at Messina, are still alive. The Archbishop of Messina, who was reported to he dead, has been rescued from the ruins. He mounted the roof of the building to give his benediction to the dying and dead still under the ruins.

All the Huleatt perished