THE WAR IN ALBANIA

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2181, 20 June 1914, Page 5

THE WAR IN ALBANIA

MIRMTES ATTACKED. fry Triogntyli—Pras A«Soc)atlon—Oowflßlit Ourazze, June IS. When 1500 Mimrte' loyalists reached Shialj, t-lic insurgents, with a- qiikfetirw, attacked thorn as they were comjug down i'h-O face of tlio Suite, and earned, out a surrounding movement. The Mirdites Wed. Some ware unable to cross tlio bridge and flung themselves into the lagoon and were drowned. Others were cat off and massacre*}.Tlw insurgents stopped, mr the plain outside- Shialt, nwd ma-cle .desultory attacks. Muanwhile o panic broke out in thm-ixo, owing to fear, that the insurgents would wilcr. BLUEJACKETS PROTECTING THE PALACE, (Bee, Juno 20, 0.13 a.m.) Qumtw, June 19. lVince Wijiiam had iwsiiitud oti the advaneo at all eosts. Tiw Mirdites wer H thriw repulwd, ami tiually 1W in panic, tlio- insiirgrMts capturing two gftiis, whitrii worc-latci' used with grcftt cfttet Jaiftinst Use OaWnmoiit ti-ooj>«. The retwait en-uscri a panic iu Dn» razza, t\\a residents taking icfii|» iu tho Consulates, and going to the sea-shore, hoping to board warships. As tho insurgents did not sdviifwe, tku panic soon subsided. Jl'ivft huiiclrod Bfitisli, Austri;i,ii, n»d Italian Muij--jackets are .prateetlsig the palaws. Itis ho-iiied that, tho Jlalissori and Mirdito iuyalists will regain coufago when the Jliytjite Chief Pienfc Bibdodo arrives with two thousand rekif-orCMwnts.