REVOLT IN ALBANIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13339, 30 March 1911, Page 5

REVOLT IN ALBANIA.

SERIOUS TROUBLE. Frees Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. CETTINJE, March 29. - Several Albanian tripes are rising. They have destroyed blockhouses in the Tushi district, seizing the soldiers’ rifles and ammunition. ’ In one instance they captured three cannon and - seized Tushi, whence the garrison had been withdrawn to protect the blockhouse at Shipehamd. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 29. ' Refugees Returning,,, from Montenegro .created disturbances at- Scutari. Nine battalions have been:; sent to Albania, Sheyket Tirgut Pasha commands the expedition... GERMAN OFFICER SHOT DEAD. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 29. Colonel Schlichting, a German instructor tor to the army. Was shot dead at Constantinople by an Albanian soldier whom he was drilling. The soldier presented being reprimanded for slackness. He hasbeen arrested, TURKISH OFFICERS SHOT. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 29. Turkish officers were assassinated at Salonika by a reprimanded soldier. TURKISH TROOPS ON THE MOVE. Big; Battle impending. Receiver, March 90, 9.15 a.m. . ; CONSTANTINOPLE, March 29. Fifteen hundred troops are hurrying to Kopliku to, intercept the advancing Albanians, and a further 3000 troops are mobilising. -■