THE ALBANIAN RISING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 32, 1 August 1911, Page 5

THE ALBANIAN RISING

25,000 STARVING ALBANIANS. AN APPEAL FOR HELP. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 31, 10 p.m. London, July 31. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London and others have issued an appeal for subscriptions in aid of twenty-five thousand starving Albanians, including ten thousand refugees in Montenegro. . Nearly the whole of the Christian population of Northern Albania require assistance for the winter. Owing to the revolt crops were not sown, and the flocks either died of foot and mouth rot or were edten. AN OPPRESSED COUNTRY. "Austria-Hungary is said to be doing her best to secure a pacific settlement oetween the Turks and the Albanian insurgents although the official press is once ••'fing a nn .acmg fimr t«w»nis the 'Ottomltn Government," says the SpnotatoK -■ "It is feared, however, that the Young Turks have adopted a policy o'' 'thorough,' and intend, if the.v tan, to settle the Albanian question once and for all. and by very drastic methods. Hakki Bey, tlie delegate for Albania on the Salonika Committee, according to the Times, bent on jestablishing, colonies of Mussulmans from Bosnia and. Herzegovina, and elsewhere in Northern Albania, and intends to bring do vu those mountaineers after they have made their submission* and settle them in .the plains, thus separating them from the other Albanian clans." "The.revolt has now been goingon for' more than two months, though under any .decent system 1 of government ! it need never have broken out at all," sayß the Saturday Review. "All the Albanians asked for was that (1) their local journals should not be subject to Turkish supervision; (2) Albanian schools should ; be conducted by natives in the native tongue; (3) taxes raised in- Albania should be expended in local administration. Bedii Pacha, the late Governor of Scutari, was neither prepared to govern justly nor to check the revolt at its inception. He had no adequate forces on the spot, so proclaimed a'Holy War and armed the _ Mohammedans of the neighborhood with the Martinis surrendered the year before by the Albanians."