ALBANIAN WAR.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 26 December 1924, Page 11

ALBANIAN WAR.

REBELS CAPTURE TIRANA.

REPORT OF BRITISH ACTION" DENIED.

(Elm*'* TSLEGJ-AMS.) LONDON. December 23. Reports rcjardins the righting in Albania are ronflieiing. Great Britain is doing !ier best to localise the trouble by advice to the parties concerned, but ihe report of the despatch of British warships is untrue. (AUSTRALIAN .'.ND S.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON. December 23. » The morning newspapers state that a column of Albanian insurgents entered Tirana (a small town near Durazzo) last evening. Scutari fell after half an hour's battle, in which the rebels, commanded by the ex-Prime Minister, Ahmed Zogu, beat tho Government troops.

GREECE NEUTRAL. JUGOSLAVIA DENIES HELPING INSURGENTS. iSIDKZT "StK" SIBVTCI.) , GENEVA, December 23. Tho Albanian represenativo here insists that Jugoslavian troops are supporting the insurgents. He has informed the League of Nations that the Albanians captured threo rebels bearing tho Serbian army's identification badge, also some Serbian artillery.

Greece Las proclaimed her neutrality. (beutee's TZLEGEAMS.) BELGRADE. December 23. Albanian allegations that Jugoslavian troops are participating in the Albanian rising are semi-omeially denied. Tho newspapers suggest that the Albanian Note to tho League of Nations is supported by Sonet Russia, whose only representative in tho Balkans is in Albania, and who is alleged to be talcing advantago of tho present situation to prevent tho re-establishmcnt of peace in the Balkaus.