TIRANA REPORTS ALL QUIET.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 April 1939, Page 5

TIRANA REPORTS ALL QUIET.

ALBANIANS COMPLACENT AT ITALIAN OCOUPATON.I

ANTI-BRITISH BITTERNESS

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Received Monday, 10.5 p.m. TIRANA, April 10

The occupation of Albania has ceased to be a military problem. Italian troops troops are encamped along the GreekJugoslavian frontier. The reconstruction of the country according to Fascist ideas has begun. Italian gendarmes have resumed their police duty. Italian reinforcements are still reaching Durazzo. Italy can close the Adriatic without using her navy because Italian guns now face each other on either side of the sea.

Scutari is normal, Laving surrendered to the Bersaglieri. The victors made a peace gesture by hauling down the white flag and replacing it with the Albanian, not the Italian flag. The surrender followed an armistice after a gun fight in which each side lost one killed and fifteen wounded.

A decree orders the giving up of all arms within 48 hours.

The Italians released two Albanian officers who were imprisoned by their compatriots because the officers refused to cease fire until their munitions were exhausted.

Italians rescued from the crowd an Albanian youth refusing to cheer Signor Mussolini. The populace is bitter about Britain and have hidden all pictures of King Zog. ALBANIAN ROYAL FAMILY FURTHER MOVEMENTS. Received Monday, 10.5 p.m. LONDON, April 10. The Daily Telegraph’s Athens correspondent says King Zog, Queen Geral--dine, their baby son and King Zog’s three sisters passed through Salonika without stopping. They motored to Volo where they are staying at an hotel temporarily. ZOG ARRIVES IN GREECE Received Tuesday, 2 a.m. " ATHENS, April 10. King Zog and Queen Geraldine have •.arrived at Larissa, in Greece. REQUEST WITHDRAWN. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, April 10. ' The War Office withdraws the request cabled earlier from London that the Moslems deputation convey a resolution to the Italian Embassy protesting against the Albanian invasion -and demanding that Mussolini renounce his title of the “Defender of .Islam.” GUARANTEED BY ITALY.

GREECE’S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY.

(Received This Day, 12.20' p.m.) PARIS, April 10

It is reported that Greek newspapers publish a statement from Italy guaranteeing Greece’s absolute territorial Integrity. GREECE’S INTEGRITY ASSURED. ( Received This Day, 10.10' a.m.) ATHENS, April 10. iSir Sydney Waterlow, British Minister at Greece, interviewed Premier Dictator Metaxas and later issued a .statement declaring that Greece’s integrity is absolutely assured and the Government is ceaselessly watchful to preserve its honour. WORK RESUMED ON ALBANIAN OILFIELDS. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) TIRANA, April 10. Troops from ’planes have occupied Koritza adjacent to the Greek fron•tier. Work has been resumed in the Albanian oilfields with soldiers standing by. MORE. ITALIAN RESERVISTS CALLED UP.

(Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) ROME, April 10

Reservists numbering 330,000 wer<s up to-day. At present 900,000, excluding native troops, are under arms. It is understood Mussolini is postponing his visit to Tirana to await the result of the British and French "Cabinet meetings.

TROOPS LANDING FROM ’PLANES

(Received This Bay, 11.5 a.m.) TIRANA, April 10Troops, technicians and medical corps continue landing from ’planes, •each carrying twenty to thirty fully equipped men. ALBANIAN TROOPS. CROSS BORDER AND ARE DISARMED. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) BUCHAREST, April 10. The Rumanian Foreign Minister Dr. Grigore Gafencu, who has returned from Istanbul, received the Yugoslav Ambassador and the French, Italian and Hungarian ministers. Many Albanian troops who have crossed the border have been disarmed. They state that Italians are forty miles from the Yugoslav frontier.