ALBANIAN CRISIS
Demands of Mussolini SHARP ULTIMATUM Removal of Non-Italian Officials Demanded AWKWARD ALTERNATIVE By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received August 27, 5.5 p.m.) Belgrade, August 26. A crisis lii>x arisen in Albania in consequence of King Zog rejecting four leading clauses in a seven-point ultimatum from Signor Mussoliii demanding the dismissal of all Albanian high officials who are not of Italian origin, the removal of Sir Jocciyn Percival and other English officers commanding the police and their replacement by Italian police, and the re-opening qf Catholic schools. It is asserted that the ultimatum represents the biggest threat to any Balkan State received since the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia which precipitated the Great War. King Zog faces the alternatives or revolution due to Albanian dissatisfaction over Italian dominance or the loss of large Italian subsidies.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 285, 28 August 1933, Page 9
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133ALBANIAN CRISIS Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 285, 28 August 1933, Page 9
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