Mad Mussulmans

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 2, 21 May 1914, Page 5

Mad Mussulmans

MAKiI MATTERS LIVELY AT DURAZZO. SETTLING THE EPIROTES DIFFICULTIES. PEACE SIGNED OX SUNDAY. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Durazzo, May 19. Two thousand fanatical Mussaimans . *nd insurgent peasants have captured Siak, near Durazzo. They demand exemption from military service and the ■ use ©4. th c Albanian tongue in schools*. ' They accuse Essad Pasha of breaking fcis promises. Meanwhile the Italian squadron had arrived hastily at Durazzo. and Essad Pasha and his wife were arrested and placed aboard the Austro-Hungarian warship Szigetvar, but it is not known ; at whose instigation. The concessions of the Albanian Government to the Eoirotes include the formation of their own gendarmery and the appointment of Christian Governors. , .wife locally elected administrative councils with all powers. The Government also guarantees education and language concessions. Athens, May 19. Peace was signed on Sunday between . Albania and Egirua. AN EPIROTE RISING. NIPPED IN THE BUD.

Received 2ft, 11.40 p.m. Durazzo, May 20. Prince 'William a fortnight ago learnt that , JGssad Pagha. was organising a coup d'etat. He "directed Essad <to disarm bis bodyguard of three hundred men. Essad refused, and yesterday fire thousand of his supporters at Durazzo commenced; a revolt, Essad firing the firat shot against the pqjace. Th« commanders of the Italian warihipa sent five hundred marines and machine guns and surrounded Essad's house and bodyguard, who offered no , resistance. Eesad. is now surrounded and marines are guarding the palace.