REVOLT IN ALBANIA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14143, 15 June 1920, Page 6

REVOLT IN ALBANIA.

THE VALONA FIGHT. ROME, Monday. - The fight for Valona raged furiously for four hours, beginning at midnight. Fifteen thousand Albanian msiirgents placed, mines on all the roads. Tliev destroyed bridges and planted captured Italian guns on the heights overlooking the town. These shelled the naval base. •■.During the main attack the Italian warships implied. The defenders’ plight was almost hopeless at 4 o’clock, owing to the treacherous Mussulman 4 attack in then rear but the Alpini made a desperate • charge, slaying 200,' and capturing sev- , eral thousand, with a number ot guns. Then they rounded up, all the Mussulman, whom thqy transported to Brindisi. The Italian losses are severe. The first list .contains i thirty-seven officers missing. t - There are disquieting, .rumours con.cerning the fate Skutaid garrison. * ~ ■ .. ~ . A later message states .that the antiItalian rising in Albania is how general. \ . Italian garrisons have been forced to quit several Adriatic ports. _ The evacuation of Durazzo and bluitari is imminent. ESSAD PASHA ASSASSINATED. PARIS, Monday. - Rustem, an Albanian student, assassinated Essad Pasha in the Rue Me ! Casticlione, holding him to be an enemy of Albania’s aspirations. Essad Pasha was entering a motor from the Hotel Continental, when Rustem, who was biding behind a pRhjD shot him twice with a revolver. the. second bullet penetrated his heart, and Essad dropped dead. The porters seized Rustem, whom the crowd half lynched. Rustem said he wished to nveuge Albania’s wrongs, and alleged that J*.ssad had been plotting against the new-ly-formed Republican Government. Essad Pasha came to Pans as the head of the Albanian Delegation, and stayed here since, because Italy refused to permit him to return. garrisons forced to flee. ROME, Monday. The "arrisons at Santi Quaranta miles north-east of Corfu), Dulcigno (a Montenegro port 20 miles south-west of Skutari), and Antivari, have been forced to embark. . . -~ A small garrison at Tepelmi, io miles south-south-east of Durazzo, although surrounded for many days, is .still holding out. vlt is receiving rations from .aeroplanes, .... . , Durazzo continues pluckily to resist, but everything is ready for the evacuIt appears that a national uprising is now in progress throughout Albania. Strikes of seamen and railwayman nre occurring in many. Italian por s and towns, the object, being to prevent the despatch of troops and material.