SERBIA AND ALBANIA

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 3, 28 September 1921, Page 5

SERBIA AND ALBANIA

SITUATION DEBATED BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS REPORTS OF FIGHTING SAID TO BE "TISSUE OF LIES” By Telegraph—Press Association—OonyrigM Geneva, September 26. The Albanian delegates assert that the; Serbs are concentrating in great force, ready to invade Scutari. " The Serbs ore using poison gas. The Albanians claim they drove back the Serbians, killing 57 Serbian soldiers and four officers. The League of Nations debated, the matter, M Spalaikowitch, the Serbian delegate, in an angry speech, saying that the Albanian statements were a tissue of lies. No ultimatum had been sent to Albania. The League’s committee on political affairs decided that the League could only take a mgral interest in the dispute, as the Coiincil of Ambassadors was dealing with tho question.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. London, September 26. There are contradictory reports of ’he. Serbo-Albanian hostilities. Albanian advices state that the Albanians are heroically resisting the attacks of the Serbian army south of Mirdite. The enemy's Objective is the Luria mountain, commanding the Tirana Plain, and threatening tho Albanian capital. Serbian reports assert that the Albanian reports of fighting are without foundation. The object is to impress the League of Nations.— Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn.