ALBANIA
RISING OF REBELS,
MARCHING ON TIRANA.
SX CABLE—PEES 3 ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT
Received Jun© ft, $:3>J> a.m
LONDCKN, June 2.
Reports from Albama, show that a force of 6000 rebels are marching on Tirana. They are -m possession of field and machine-guns*, but are mostly undisciplined volarvteers. Th© Government is able- -to sneet them with 3000 armed regulars, A special danger exists in. the reappearance of armed SlovakiatvG^sek bands upon th© Albania frontier,, -taking advantage of unsettled conditions to invade Albania.
The American at Tirana offered to refer the trouble to th© League of .Nations, but both sides refused the^ffer.
Martial law ;has been proclaimed throughout thfe country. Communication witJi Tirana is interrupted.— Sydney San «©ables.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 3 June 1924, Page 5
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115ALBANIA Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 3 June 1924, Page 5
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