-2- #382, November 16, 7 p.m., from Vatican City.      
 
                                                            
 
 
until late last night in the year and to be revised to meet the changed   
situation. All these services at the cost of very great effort have been   
arranged for on a free (respect free) basis with the Italain Governemnt,   
the Vatican and the Italain red Cross. The changed now involve a complete   
transfer, unloading, warehousing and transporting in a military zone by   
the army. We are using every effort to overcome these difficulties and to   
revise procedures. Meanwhile the actual situation in the interior which   
has been illustrated by our several reports sent you grows increasingly   
critical. This situation will bring clearly before your mind the urgent   
request made beginning with my telegram No. 315 September 11 to set aside   
a special ship of some sort for transportation of relief materials without   
admixture with regular cargo and permitting delivery to be made at a port   
convenient for their distribution. We again urge the importance of such a   
plan being adopted otherwise all professions of interest and promises   
for relief made at home and given wide publicity here will be increasingly   
embarrassing in the absence of any actual relief. Allen of American Red   
Cross yesterday indicated that while they had some supplies actually on   
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