THE ALBANIAN REVOLT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1193, 31 July 1911, Page 7

THE ALBANIAN REVOLT.

INTERVENTION NOT IMPROBABLE. By Triecrapb—Press Association—Copyrlehl London, July 26. | Sir Edward Groy, Foreign Secretary, in the course of a debate in tho House, said the Albanian insurrection was n source of anxiety, ond ho would not bo surprised if tho adjoining Powers tools Bteps to limit the area of disturbance. Ho deplored tho effccts of tho outbreak on the stability of the new Turkey. AN OPPRESSED COUNTRY. "Austria-Hungary is said to be doing her best to secure a pacific settlement between the Turks and tho Albanian insurgents, although tho official press is once more adopting a menacing tone towards tho Ottoman Government," says tho "Spectator." "It is feared, however, that the Young Turks have adopted a policy of 'thorough,' and intend, if they can. to settlo the Albanian question once and for all, and by very drastic methods. Hakki Bey, the delegate for Albania on the Salonika Committee, is, according to 'Tho Times/ bent oil establishing colonies of Mussulmans from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and elsewhere in Northern Albania, and intends to bring down flioso mountaineers after they have made their submission, and settlo them 'in tho plains, thus separating them from tho other Albanian clans."

"The revolt has now been going on tor mora than two months, though uudor any dccent system of government it need never have broken out at all," says tlio "Saturday Review." "All tho Albanians asked for was that (i) Their local journals should not bo subject to Turkish supervision; (ii) Albanian schools should bo conducted by natives in the nativo tongue j (iii) taxes raised in Albania should bo expended in local administration. Bedri Pacha, the late Governor of Scutari, was neither prepared to govern justly nor to check tlio,revolt at its inception. Ho had no adequate forces on tlio spot, so proclaimed a Holy War and armed tho Mohammedans of the neighbourhood with tho Martinis surrendered the year before by the Albanians."