ALBANIA'S ARMY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 24, 5 March 1914, Page 8

ALBANIA'S ARMY.

GERMANS TO ORGANISE.

By Cable.—Prets Association.—Copyright, LONDON, March 4.

The Kaiser has agreed .to Prince William of Wied's suggestion to permit German officers to organise the Albanian forces.

"THE BARBAROUS YOKE." REVOLT IN EPIRUS. ATHENS, March 4. Three thousand insurgents at Argirokastro have proclaimed their independence. Zographos, the leader of the rebels, stated that Greece has been obliged to sacrifice Epirus to higher interests, but Epirots declined to submit to the barbarous yoke. [Epirus, a country of ancient Greece, was bounded by Thessaly and Macedonia on the ast, Illyria on the north, and the lonian sea on the west. The name Epirus is still sometimes used in modern geography for the south-west portion of the Turkish province of Janina, in Lower Albania.]