ANOTHER WAR.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1589, 15 June 1920, Page 5

ANOTHER WAR.

Albanians Attack Italians*

ENTRY OF VALONA REPORTED

ITALIAN MUTINY AT FIUME

[By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.]

ROME, June 13

It. is officially announced that Albanian rebels made assaults on "Valona, but were repelled. Ten Italians were killed, and twenty wounded, and one General was captured. The latest unofficial report is that Albanians have entered Valona, and occupied Palermo, further south. The defence at Valona is now entrusted to cruisers.

V GENERAL RISING

RUMOURS ARE DISQUIETING

(Received Monday 5.5 p.m.) ROME, June 14

The fight for Valona raged furiously for four hours, beginning at midnight. Fifteen thousand Albanian insurgents placed mines on all the roads; they destroyed bridges; planted captured Italian guns on the heights overlooking the town, and with these shelled the naval base during the main attack, the Italian warships replying. The defenders* plight was almost hopeless at four o'clock, owing to a treacherous Mussulman attack in their rear, but the Alpini made a desperate charge, slaying two hundred and capturing several thousand, and a number of guns. Then they rounded up all the Mussulman, whom they deported to Brindisi. The Italian losses are severe; the first lfcit contains thirty-seven officers missing. There are disquieting rumours concerning the fate of the Scutari garrison. Later. The anti-Italian rising in Albania is now general. The Italian garrisons have been forced to quit several Adriatic sea ports, and the evacuation of Durazzo and Scutari is imminent. SYMPATHY STRIKERS ASSIST ENEMY. (Received Monday, 8.45 p.m.) ROME, June 14.

The garrisons at Santi Quaranta (eight miles north-east of Corfu), Dulcigno (on the Montenegrin coast, twelve miles south, of Antivari), and Antivari have been forced to embark. The small garrison at Tepeleni, severity-five miles south-east of Durazzo, though surrounded for many days, is still holding out, receiving rations from an aeroplane. Durazzo continues placidly to resist, but everything is ready for evacuation. It appears that a national uprising is no-w----in progress throughout Albania. Strikes of seamen and railwaymen are occurring in many Italian ports and towns, the object being to prevent the dispatch of troops and material.

ESSAD PASHA SHOT. ALBANIAN YOUTH'S REVENGE. PARIS, June 14. Rustem, an Albanian student, assassinated Essad I'asha in the Rue De Casticlione, holding him to be an enemy of Albania's aspirations. Essad Pasha was entering a motor from the Hotel Continental, when Rustem, who was hiding behind a pillar, shot him twice with a revolver. A second bullet penetrated the heart, and Essad dropped dead. Porters seized Rustem, whom the crowd half lynched. Rustem said that he wished to avenge Albania's 'wrongs, and Essad had been plotting against the newly-formed Republican Government. Essad came to Paris as head of the Albanian delegation, and had stayed here since, because Italy had refused a permit for him to return.