ADRIATIC TENSION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 1

ADRIATIC TENSION

POWERS’ DIPLOMACY NO RECOURSE TO LEAGUE ITALY AND YUGOSLAVIA C British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Wednesday. Diplomatic conversations upon the Adriatic situation are proceeding between Great Britain, France and Germany, the three powers to whom the Italian Government addressed its recent Note. In British circles the Yugoslav Foreign Minister’s statement welcoming an impartial inquiry into the facts is regarded as considerably easing the situation, and there is a disposition to favour such investigation on the spot by military experts. Replying to a question in the House of Commons Sir Austen Chamberlain said that his information did not lead him to think that recourse to the League of Nations- would be necessary. He emphatically denied that the British Government had made any approaches to the Italian Government with a view to inducing the latter to ratify the Treaty of Paris relative to Bessarabia. —A. and N.Z. ASSASSINATION ALBANIAN LEADERS ENEMIES OF PRESIDENT By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright LONDON, Wednesday. The Vienna correspondent of the ‘Daily Mail” reports the assassination at Tirana, Albania, of Yussuf Sali Bey, leader of the Albanian independence movement against the Turks, and of a merchant, his friend. Both men were enemies of the President of Albania, Ahmed Bey Zogu. The Tirana correspondent of “The Times” says Sali Bey was murdered by a Bulgarian retainer. The motive is supposed to have been revenge. Public opinion however, attributes it to political reasons. The situation on the frontier is tense. Aeroplanes are making reconnaissances along the eastern frontier. —A. and N.Z.