TRIBESMEN REVOLT
TROUBLE N ALBANIA Refusal To Join Italian Army OFFICERS SHOT (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) Received Aug. 12, 9.35 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 11. A revolt against Italy flared up in Albania when the Mriditi tribe rebelled because the Italians tried to force them to join the army. Italian officers are reported to have been shot while requisitioning food and cattle. The Daily Mail’s Athens correspondent says that revolts in Albania began on August 9 and are spreading. The leaders of the Kurveles tribe have notified the Italians that they will refuse to supply foodstuffs and will disobey mobilisation orders. They have demanded the release of Albanians imprisoned at Tirana. Many Albanians have been imprisoned for distributing leafllets urging young men to flee to the woods in order to escape being forced into the war “against the liberators of. small nations.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 189, 13 August 1940, Page 5
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