ALBANIAN CONDITIONS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2655, 29 December 1915, Page 5

ALBANIAN CONDITIONS

v TERRIBLE PICTURE DEATHS FROM STARVATION By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigjtt Rome, December 27. A terrible picture is given in dispatches from Albania. One hundred and fifty thousand Albanians died of starvation during the year. The position will be equally bad in 1916 unless superhuman efforts are made. Mr. W. Howard, owner of an American relief schooner, which is landing provisions, says:—"The season's crop has completely failed. Two hundred thousand Serbians have just arrived without food and penniless, in addition to 30,000 Austrian prisoners. The distress is acute in the Bera Sanjak, whero 200,000 people have neither food nor homes. Numbers are starving to death daily. While unloading my food, I personally fed a thousand famished Serbs, as well as Austrian prisoners, many of whom had not tasted bread for several weeks, and were on the verge of starvation. Numbers were so weak that they could not carry their provisions." FORD'S PEACE MISSION SECRETS OF THE ATLANTIC JOY RIDE Copenhagen, December 27. Mr. Ford recently intimated his willingness to spend several million dollars on peace propaganda in Scandinavia, towards tlio building of a peace palace at Copenhagen. Dr. Jenkin' Jones has been selected chairman: The members of the mission are still quarrelling, and are revealing the secrets of the Atlantic journey. During one heated discussion late at night, it is said, several members produced revalvei'6' and tjucuteiiail each other with gtfcSKi