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go into the black market. It is the view of this observer that  
 large proportion of this food will go into the black market; however, if   
trade is resumed and encouraged, increasing supplies will come into the   
area, and, as the material becomes less scarce prices will find a more   
intelligent level. All Italians state that the only well-organized, well-  
run and reasonable adequately supplied market is the black market. It is   
far more dependable, according to these sources, than is-the market as   
operated by the Allied Control Commission. It is the view of this observer   
that if all permits and passes were dispensed with and trade--in a manner  
historically familiar to Italy--would be permitted to resume, with the   
competition afforded this market by the obligations of the Allied   
Authorities being met the situation in this area can be saved. This   
observer has been told that the middle class and the people of small and   
large savings have exhausted every resource and have sold all personal   
possessions and are completely without funds or employment. The only   
               solut ion to this problem is:                
 
                                                            
 
 
  1. That the stock piles in Foggia, Viterbo and Perugia  
be moved in sufficient quantities to the ready warehouses in the province,   
to the mills in existence in the province, which have been repaired and  
                    are not being used;                     
 
                                                            
 
 
  2. That permits and passes be dispensed with and free trade   
                         permitted;                         
 
                                                            
 
 
  3. That bedding and clothing be expedited to the area  
where more than 10,000 people are living in open fields without   
      reasonable clothing and practically no bedding;       
 
                                                            
 
 
4. That tents be erected for the winter, the present  
number consisting of 30 tents being hardly sufficient for these  
                   thousands of people;                     
 
                                                            
 
 
 15. That in as much as this is a mined area and an area of  
possible epidemic, at least the province; at the present  
moving the ill or injared to the two Red Cross Hospitals.  
one ambulance should be available in time there is no regular means of the   
                  two Red Cross Hospitals.