THE ALBANIAN THRONE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 5

THE ALBANIAN THRONE.

FORCES TO BE ORGANISED.

[By Eleoteio Telegraph—Copybiuhtj [ United Pkesb Association.] Berlin, March i. Tho Kaiser lias agreed to Prince Wied's suggestion to permit German officers to organise the Albanian forces.

Jii January a sensational plot was discovered at Vallona, the sear oi the Albanian Provisional Government, which had for its object the proclaiming as king of Iz/.et Pasha, the Turkish ex-Minister of War. A \i>w days before the discovery, Jzzet Pasha (who bad been Minister since ■January last year) resigned his post, and Envor Hey was appointed in bis place. Nobody in Europe could understand the reason for this change. The mystery has since been cleared up. Izzet Pasha "laid down his office in order to proceed to Albania and seize the new throne.

When lie was on his way to Yallona six Turkish officers and two hundred soldiers arrived from Constantinople to prepare for his proclamation, but they were arrested, and martial law proclaimed throughout Albania. Iz/et Pasha's coup would have been a challenge to the Great Powers, who hnd already unanimously chosen a ruler tor the new State in the person of the Prince of "Wind. The hitter's departure for bis new country was. indeed, expected every day, the main reason for the delay being the question of an international loan which was for some time under discussion l)v the Powers.