REVOLT IN ALBANIA

Southland Times, Issue 18849, 15 June 1920, Page 5

REVOLT IN ALBANIA

NATIONAL RISING AGAINST ITALIANS C4RSSBN3 DRIVEN CD I (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z.-Cable Association.) ROME, June 13. It is officially announced that assaults by Albanian rebels on \ Mona were repelled. Ten Italians were killed and twenty wounded. One general was raptured. Hie Albanians lied leadin' (i'l‘l dead and hundreds Wounded. The Italians have been reinforced. The latest unofficial advice is that the Albanians entered \ alona and occupied Palermo further sonih. The defence of Valona is now entrusted to cruisers. Two hundred Aniiti, objecting to embark for Albania, caused a serious riot at Trieste, in which a number oi soldiers and civilians were killed or injured. The Aniiti ■ultimately capitulated and embarked. Quiet iaa been restored. A NATIONAL UPRISING. ITALIAN GARRISONS EXPELLED. FIERCE FIGHT FCR VALONA. ROME, June U. (Received June 14, o ■> p.m. 1 The hghl for Valona raged furiously for four hour-, beginning at midnight. liftmen thousand Albanian insurgents p.laeed mines on all the roads. They destroyed thei bridges, and planted raptured Italian guns on heights overlooking the town. I dose shelled the naval base during tlie mam attack, Indian warships replying. The defenders’ plight, was almost hnpclc-s at 4 o'clock owing to a treacherous Mussulman attack in tlv-ir rear, but the Alpmi made a desperate charge, slaying 200 and capturing many thousand and a number of guns. Then they rounded up all the .Mussulmans, who they deported to Brindisi. The Italian losses are severe. The first list contains 37 officers missing. There are disquieting rumours concerning the fate of the Scutari garrison. The garri.-ons at Sand Quaranta (eight miles nonth cast of Corfu 1 , Deulcigno (on Montenegrin coast twelve miles south of Antivari ', and Antivari have been forced to embark. The small garrison at Te Pelenl, 75 miles south-east of Durazzo, though surrounded for many days, is still holding out, receiving rations from aeroplanes. Durazzo continues pluckily to resist, but everything is ready for evacuation. It appears that, a national uprising is nowin progress throughout Albania. Strikes of seamen and railwaymen are occurring in many Italian ports and towns, the object being to prevent the despatch of troops and materia!. ESSAD PASHA. ASSASSINATED IN PARIS. ALBANIAN YOUTH'S ACT. PARIS. June 12. Essad Pasha, Dictator of Albania, and head of the Albanian delegation to Paris, was shot dead by an Albanian youth outside his hotel. The assailant was arrested. He said ho acted upon a sudden impulse owing to the sufferings of the Albanians. THE ASSASSIN. AN ALBANIAN STUDENT. PARIri, June 14. (Received June 14, 7.30 pm,' Rustem, an Albanian student, assassin»ted Ess ad Pasha in the Rue de Castieliene. holding him to be the enemy of Albani •.’» aspirations. Esjsad Pasha was entering a motor from the Hotel Continental when. Rustem, who was hiding behind a pillar, shot him twice with a revolver. The second bullet penetrated the heart, am! E.-s:ui dropped dead. Porters seized Rustem, whom ihe crowd half lynched. Rustem said he wished to avenge Albania's wrongs, and Kss id had been plotting against the newly-formed republican Government. Essad Pasha came to Paris as the head of the Albanian delegation, and had stayed here since because Italy refused to permit him to return..

REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA. A SHANGHAI REPORT. TROTSKY MURDERED AMD LEMiN A FUGITIVE. (Reuter's Telegrams.) SHANGHAI. dune 11. A wireless message received states that Trotsky has been murdered and that Lenin is a fugitive as the result, of a counter-revo-lution. A n‘-w Government has been established Isndcr Ce-neral Bru-imt f. REPORT NOT CONFIRMED BOLSHEVIST CHARGES AGAINST THE POLES. PARIS, June 13. )Received June 14. T. 30 p.m.) A Mo.-eow wireless me.s.-:!ge aeeu.-es the Yoi-S of Mowing up Vladimir Cathedral, railvj?ay station.-, and electric power houses, arid 01.-o the writer supply. There is no contirmation in otiicial circles in Paris of the reported count t revolution in Russia under Bru.-doff. nr of the murder Trot.-ky and the flight of Lenin. KIEFF EVACUATED BY THE POLES. COMM UMI CAT lONS TH R EATEN ED. LONDON. June 13. The Poles have evacuated Kiel: after five weeks' occupation owing to the Bolshevik's advance threatening their communications. WRANGEL'S OFFENSIVE. FIRST OBJECTIVE ACHIEVED. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 12. General Wrangel has achieved his firs: objective in the new advance. He has captured Melitipol. with 5000 prisoners, 27 guns, and five armoured trains. GERMAN POLITICAL SITUATION. MUELLER UNABLE TO FORM A CABINET. PEOPLE’S LEADER COMMISSIONED. BERLIN, June 14. On Von Mueller declaring that he would tic unable to form a Cabinet, Lbert asked Dr n-'inzm chairman of the People’s Party, 4o form a. Ministry. The Tageblutt .-ays Ilcinze strenuously opposed the Kapp coup, and is more suitable to fill the role of mediator than most of his party friends. The Lokalanzeiger states that Ebert will not seek re-election as President owing to opposition oi his own party.

PERSIA. SOVIET GOVERNMENT AT RESHT. (The Times.) TEHERAN, June 12. Kutchik Khan has proclaimed himself Prime Minister and War Windier of the Persian Soviet Government. He is quartered at Rcsht. MESOPOTAMIA. ATTACKS ON THE BRITISH. OFFICIAL RETICENCE CONDEMNED. LONDON, .lime 13. The Times, in a leader, condemns tec reticence of the authorities regardin'; the attack on the British in Mesopotamia. It declares that the concealment of unfavourable news can no longer be tolerated. There has been too much secrecy regarding military operations in Mesopotamia. Permanent occupation might involve continuous warfare which would be more costly than frontier operations. The latter ere defrayed by ihe Indian Exchci pier whereas the adventures in Mesopotamia and Persia are chargeable on the Home Bum- t.