TROUBLED ALBANIA

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2154, 21 May 1914, Page 5

TROUBLED ALBANIA

AT PEACE WITH EPIRIIS

FRESII TUMULT NEAR THE

CAPITA I.

Ily TciOErftDti—Pr«>!B AHociaUcn—CofiWiirht Athens, May 19. I oacu was signed on Sumlav between Albania and Epims,

Durazzo, May 10. lbf* Albanian Government's concesbioiis to the Kpirotos tnci-ndo flic formalism of them- own gendarmerie: tlio appointment ef Christian Governors, with iocally-eloeloil Ailniinistratifo Cowieils, all to he niitler the gunranteo of the J oii'pis ; education and language concessions. MORE DISTURBANCE. FANATICAL MUSSULMANS IN RIO VOLT. f„ .. Purazzo, May 19. 'I wo thousand fanatical Mussulmans and msnrgont peasants eaptwed Siak. near Ruraawi. They demanded -oxom-p----iion from military service, and the 'use of the Albanian tmigno in tiro schools. I iioy accused I'.ssad Pasha of breaking Ins promises. Meanwhile, the Italian s.'pjadron has arrived hastily at Dnram>. Itssad Pn»ha and his wife h.avf; been arrested and plane.) aboard the AiistroHung:',nan warship Sxigctvw. It is not known at ivho.so instigation this was done. ESSAD PASHA'S TREACHERY. ATTEMPTS ACOUP D'ETAT. (Rec. May 20, 11.40 p.m.) Dwrazzb, Mav 20. Prince William (the ruler of Allmnia) learnt n tortniglit ago that Rssad Pasha was organising a coup d'etat. Be di-ri'-ctod Essad Pasha to disarm his bodyfii.iard of three hundred, but Kssad rein .sod. Yesterday, five thousand of KssmVs snppoi ters in liiirazi'.e eoniiiienced a revolt, Essad firing the first- shot Against tm> palar;o. Tlio coiHiiiandor of the Italian warsiii(> five hundred ninfijic-s. with niachiiio "tins, who surrmwdod Essad's houso. Tlio lather's mmlo a •small j'-osist-ajicc, and ISssad was surrounded, The marines are iiow guarding tho palace, wlsoro the trouble was begun. BALKAN WAR DILLS, REPORT OP THE CARNEGIE . COMMITTEE. By teleßfiiijTi—l>fe?s Association—OotfvfiitM "Mibds" and Sydncv "Bun" Seirvkce." Londdn, May 19. The Caraogra, Inqufiy Oanunitteo in connection wi'tlt' tho llail;;ui war reports that all the btdligerefits we're guilty tf atrocities. They brntally treated the wounded and violated the i-nt-ori.iatrovia.l laws of warfares. Bulgaria' had 153,355 men kffled and 104.-555 wounded. Tiis war cost :£3.i0.0,000 sterling. . J-s-ryia had 22,000 men killed and 150,000 ivoivndcd, wiiile 43.000 weto •.invalided, Tho war «>s.t Servia. £1,470.000. Tho v.-ar cost Gre.-j-c £1.170,n.'j0 a r,:l Moiitonegro £207,000.

rite* coiwihon p? affairs in Southern Albania a few weeks <iko was regarded |Jf Times" spseinl cprraspsm&fft j n tiift liaxsa.ns <v 9 grave, and tvs possibly involving serious cfliwilieations in tke'BaltaM Poaißsjilji, •Mluving ore,,ted tho Albanian State." he wrote, "Europe lias failed to vako ?ui.y ijicnstepes to provitl? it _.wiifv 'Meaiis of resisting oorsHle aggression or even of tuaintainlupr internal order, and the present situation is the natural coiiscniieHec. The >nonvenfc lias now arrived when either the de* cision cf tlie PowirS must be enforced or the impotence of tho European Coiierri bo o.iico more (Icniciip.triit.etl, -as in Che ease Of the Treaty cf tendon. The division o-f ihf coyntnr inta sectors on the Cretan ntcdel, which Wniild be tempo.na.r-. ily occupied by international tfonps pewlins the fireation of an. ndenuatK? nfttire farce", was suggested in 'The Times' as far had; as the autumii of 15112. Swh. a measure, which I have reason to ' would have met with, the approbation of the) Greek (rovon'.sumi, would have ob- ] viotod the present ttonblo aiul prepared the Way for the institution of. a cantoiiiil ftdminisf,ration system—i.l.i? only organisation capable of harm<sn.isinj; the parfir.!Jarist teudweies of the local papulations with loyalty "to tiic- Central (Sjv'eriWent. Unhappily.' certain Pw® have hitherto not only oppßSßd the extension. of thfl area of in tor national administration, biit ■ h.ave also Taised' diffeiilfe in th.fr way. i of joint (.lin!oniat;ic action with regard to the whole Albanian nucstjea, and the pre : sent unsatisfactory sibiaUoii ii tho direct result of their paucy." ■ |