SWIFT REVOLT

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1920, Page 5

SWIFT REVOLT

RISING IN ALBANIA.

ITALIANS FORCED TO RETREAT. PHE PRESIDENT assassinated, B» TtUfrtjph.—Ptui Assn.—Copyright Rome, June 13. Two hundred Arditi, objecting to embark for Albanja, cawed a serous riot »t Trieste, in which a number of soldiers ahd civilians were VIM cr inThe Arditi ultimately capitulated 1 and embarked. Troops tarve occupied Milan station awing to the railwavmenV str'k* It is officially announced that as- , laultsbytheAlbanian rebels on Valona ttpelled. ; Ten Italians were killed, W "Wbiided, and one genera! captured. The Albanians fled, leaving 000 dead andhnndreds Wounded. The Italians have fete* reinforced.

SPjffiAß OF THE TROUBLE.

A FURIOUS NIGHT BATTLE. ITALIANS EVACUATE SEAPORTS. Retired June 14, 5.5 p.m. Rome, June 14. The fight for Valona raged furiously fcfr four hours, banning at midnight. , Fifteen thousand Albanian Insurgents . placed mines on all the roads, they de- ' ilWfed bridges and planted captured < (titjkn guns on the heights overlooking ' llrt town. These shelled the naval base during the main attack, Italian warships The defenders' plight was almost help- - lam. at four o'clock owing to a treacherous Mussulman attack in their but the Alpini made a desperate chafge, Maying two hundred and capturing Several thousand and a number of gtthf. Then they rounded up all the . Mustuimans, whom they deported to ' BrSnaUi. The Italian losses are severe. The first lftt contains thirty-seven officers ttissihg. There are disquieting rumors coneernfty> the fate of the Sontarl garrison. Later messages show that- the antiftaiiafi rising in Albania is now gen- ' efaL The Italian garrisons have been ftteed to quit several Adriatic seaports, Utd th 4 evacuation of Durazzo and Soutarj is imminent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

1 PRESIDENT ASSASSINATED. SHOT BY ALBANIAN STUDENTS. TO AVENGE ALBANIA'S WRONGS." Received Julie 14, 5.5 p.m. Paris, June 14. i Hasten), an Albanian student, as-1 Mssinated Essad Pasha (the President if the Albanian Republic), in the Rue to Oaetilcione, holding him to he an (May' of Albania's aspirations. 'Kssad Pasha was entering a motor ' twin the Hotel Continental when Ruatem, who was hiding behind a pillar,' (hot him twice with a revolver. The Itemed ballet penetrated his heart, and Btfad trapped dead. Porters seized Rustem, whom the crowd half lynched. Rustem said he #tfche9 to (avenge Albania's wrongs, and that Essad had been plotting against the newly-formed Republican Governcame to Paris at the head of the vMbft&ian delegation and stayed here tiiMp became Italy refused to permit bin to return. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. • GARRISON'S EVACUATE. • RISING BECOMES GENERAL. STRIKES IN ITALIAN PORTS. BtceiVed June 14. 8.4S p.m. Rome, June 14. Me garrisons at Santi Qnaranta (eight nrilea north-east of Corfu), Dulsigno (on' the Montenegrin coast, twelve ■tiles south of Antivari), and Antivari have been forced to embark. A email garrison at Tepeleni (seven tyBve miles south south-east of Durazzo), though surrounded for many days is jtill hoMing out, and is receiving rations from an aeroplane. Duraoo continues pluckily to resist, but everything is ready for evacuation. It appears that a national uprising is now in progress throughout Albania. Stride? of seamen and railwaymen are occurring in many Italian ports and towns, the object being to prevent the troops and materiaL—Aus.-

A-LAWLESS PEOPLE. ALBANIA'S RECENT HISTORY. Albania Is a State carved out of the farther possessions of Turkey In Europe, •nAlt-ftet deotoed independent at the Conftrtjioe of London in 1913. The i peoplvwbo number about 1,500,000, are of a lawless nature. An Internationa] Commission of Control was set up by the Powers to direct the organisation and progress of the State. Prince Fredfitm William of Wied was elected Mpret, but he was driven out In May, 1914, by « revolution, and be was succeeded ky Euad Pasha as President of Republic, and he hag jiow been atcamtnated. Albania «m declared by Italy to be under her protection on type 3, 1017, and the Peace Conference BWftittally made the country mandatory