WILL RESIST
ALBANIA DETEKMINED ITALIAN SUBJECTS LEAVING REGULAR SERVICES STOP (Received April 7, 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, April 6 The correspondent of the British United Press at Tirana says wellinformed quarters believe Albania will resist an Italian landing. It is authoritatively stated that Italian" subjects, except for diplomatic representatives, will evacuate Albania to-day. They are expected to sail in three specially-chartered ships. It is reported from Tirana that ship and air services between Italy and Albania have been suspended, and Italians unable to leave are being accommodated at the Italian Legation. Guests at the principal hotel, the Continental, were placed in the street with their luggage and told the hotel was closing because of the departure of the Italian staff.
The Albanian Legation in Paris issued a communique, which states: "In order to end tendentious news, it is emphasised that Albania will never agree to alienate her independence, sovereignty or integrity and will not allow foreign troops to disembark on her territory. The Italian-Albanian defensive alliance of 1927 in no way authorises Italy to intervene for the maintenance of order in Albania. It is simply a defensive alliance, and there is nothing, therefore, to occasion tho belief that there is a change of attitude on the part of Italy toward Albania." A Belgrade message says the Government issued a statement that it had been fully informed of the Italian negotiations to land troops in Albania as the result of an agreement with King Zog. It is added that the Government has not objected to this in view of tho cordial relations between Yugoslavia and Italy. .
LITHUANIA NEUTRAL KAUNAS, April 5 The Lithuanian Government, in a declaration read in Parliament, said it intended to keep aloof from collisions with the great Powers, and was seeking good relations with them all and establishing neutrality. New problems arising from the cession of Mem el could be settled only by a united nation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23316, 8 April 1939, Page 13
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