ANOTHER WAR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12078, 15 June 1920, Page 5

ANOTHER WAR.

U::ited Press Associatioa—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, June 13. It is officially announced that Albanian rebels made assaults on Valona, but were repelled. Ten Italians ,-vvere killed, and twenty wounded, and one General was captured. The latest unofficial report is that Albanians have entered Yalona, and occupied Palermo, further south. The defence at Valona is now entrusted to cruisers. ROME, June 14. The fight for Valona rased furiously Cor 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 Musstilman, whom they (deported to Brindisi. The Italian losses are severe; the Jirst lJf't 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 Slave been forced to quit several Adriatic sea ports, and the evacuation of Durazzo and Scutari is imminent.

The garrisons at Santi Quaranta "(eight miles north-east of Corfu), X>uleigno (on the Montenegrin coast, twelve miles south of Antivari), and Antivari have been forced to embark. The small garrison at Tepeleni, seven Ty-live miles south-east of Durazzo, though surrounded for many clays, is still holding out, receiving rations from an aeroplane. Durazzo continues pluckily to resist, but everything is ready for evacuation. It appears that a national uprising is now En 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. PARIS, June 14. Rustem, an Albanian student, assassinated Essad Pasha in the Rue Dc Casticlione, holding him to be tin enemy of Albania's aspirations. Essad Pasha was entering a motor from the Hotel Continental, when llustom, 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. f 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.